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Med Pharm Rep ; 95(3): 320-331, 2022 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36060508

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Background and aims: Extensive polypharmacy in the elderly population affects their quality of life and medication compliance. The UK-developed LMQ-3 (Living with Medicine Questionnaire-3) is a valid instrument designed to quantify medicine burden.The aims of this study were to assess the medication-related burden among Bahraini elderly population in relation to their medication consumption patterns and other socio-demographic characteristics and identify specific issues that need to be addressed from the responses. Methods: The descriptive cross-sectional study was designed to interview 500 Bahrainis over 65 years of age, by using an LMQ-3 questionnaire. Sample size was determined by Slovin's formula. Data on socio-demographic characteristics and medication consumption patterns were collected, then LMQ-3 and domain scores were compared by patient characteristics using descriptive statistics and statistical tests. Results: We found a wide range of burden among participants in Bahrain, ranging from moderate burden in almost a third of participants, to high burden, over two- thirds of participants. Burden was mainly driven by concerns about medicines, interferences of medicines with daily life and side effects. Higher LMQ-3 scores were associated with those who were technical colleges graduates (7.5, p<0.001), aged ≥75 years (7.7, p<0.001), using ≥9 medicines (7.4, p<0.001), or using medicines four times a day (7.5, p<0.001). Anti-diabetics were the most prescribed medicines for the elderly. In conclusion: high medication related burden was observed in the majority of patients with the highest seen in certain categories of participants such as the employed and the technical college graduates. Patients with the highest medication related burden should become the main target for practitioners and pharmacists.

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BMC Med Educ ; 18(1): 300, 2018 Dec 07.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30526575

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BACKGROUND: Tobacco prevention research traditionally focuses upon cigarette smoking, but there is also a need to implement and evaluate the usefulness of waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) interventions since it is considered less harmful than cigarettes. This study aimed to assess the impact of an educational intervention on WTS knowledge of health professional students in three academic health institutions in Bahrain. METHODS: A quasi-experimental design was used to include medical students from the Arabian Gulf University, medical and nursing students from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland-Bahrain and nursing students from the University of Bahrain. Two hundred fifty students participated in the three phases of the study during October 2015-June 2016 from an original sample of 335. The participants answered knowledge questions on WTS before and after an intervention, which included a lecture by an expert and a video on the awareness about the health hazards of WTS. RESULTS: The mean age of starting cigarette and WTS was 16.8 ± 2.8 and 17.5 ± 1.7 years, respectively. The prevalence of ever smoking any type of tobacco among students was 22.4% (medical 25.8% and nursing 37.5%) and that of WTS, 17.7% (medical 20.0%, nursing 13.6%). The prevalence of current cigarette smoking was 9.6% among medical and nursing students combined with 10.3 and 8.5% for medical and nursing students, respectively. WTS was prevalent at a proportion of 6.8% among medical and nursing students combined with 6.5% in medical and 14.8% in nursing students. The university curriculum as the main source of knowledge on WTS increased from 14.2 to 33.3% after the intervention (p < 0.005). Knowledge about the hazards of WTS increased in 16 of the 20 statements. The difference in overall knowledge score was significant (p < 0.05) for nursing (77. 5 ± 1.5 vs 85.8 ± 2.2) compared to medical students (85.3 ± 1.0 vs 87.3 ± 0.9) after the intervention. CONCLUSIONS: Our educational intervention with health professional students improved their knowledge about the health effects of WTS. Medical and nursing institutions may consider using various methods such as informative videos and expert lectures to include in their teaching curricula as part of WTS prevention strategies.


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Curriculum , Smoking Cessation/methods , Students, Medical , Students, Nursing , Tobacco, Waterpipe/adverse effects , Water Pipe Smoking/epidemiology , Bahrain/epidemiology , Controlled Before-After Studies , Female , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Humans , Male , Social Environment , Water Pipe Smoking/prevention & control , Water Pipe Smoking/psychology , Young Adult
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