Medication Adherence Research Paper
Evaluation of community pharmacists’ Perceptions and Usage of Social Media Resources to Improve Their Patients’ Medication Adherence
Benjamin Lewing
PHCA 6305 - Pharmacy Administration I
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In the past decade, there has been a steady rise in the usage of social media resources in health fields for health interventions. zxz xxxxOne of the ways social media resources have been used is to improve medication adherence, which is of particular interest due to the large estimated costs associated with medication non-adherence. This study will specifically look at how commonly community pharmacists use social media based medication adherence resources, and measures their perceptions of such resources. This …show more content…
5, 7 With this cost taken into account, the improvement of medication adherence is a very important topic that is being closely looked …show more content…
One concern is privacy - there are concerns that pharmacists may not be able to safe guard confidential information given the public nature of social media. Patients also have reservations based on the public nature of some of the resources. Another fear that many practitioners have is possibility of inaccurate information being spread and the possible misuse of that information. Finally, there is an issue in that social media medication adherence resources would only fit in certain situations and for certain groups of people; for instance, a primary group of people suffering from chronic conditions are senior citizens which are much less likely to utilize social media.4, 8, 17 However, despite some of the challenges, there is very much a need for pharmacists to participate in social media health resources because of the rising trend of social media usage, and pharmacist participation could help to avoid mis-information. Even though social media usage in the health field is trending to be more universal and medication adherence is a common topic, there has been little research done relating to pharmacist usage of medication adherence social media resources. Questions rise relating to if pharmacists know such resources are available, what views they have on using those resources, if they believe the resources are effective, and how commonly are these resources
Benjamin Lewing
PHCA 6305 - Pharmacy Administration I
Abstract – put paper through turn it in zxz
In the past decade, there has been a steady rise in the usage of social media resources in health fields for health interventions. zxz xxxxOne of the ways social media resources have been used is to improve medication adherence, which is of particular interest due to the large estimated costs associated with medication non-adherence. This study will specifically look at how commonly community pharmacists use social media based medication adherence resources, and measures their perceptions of such resources. This …show more content…
5, 7 With this cost taken into account, the improvement of medication adherence is a very important topic that is being closely looked …show more content…
One concern is privacy - there are concerns that pharmacists may not be able to safe guard confidential information given the public nature of social media. Patients also have reservations based on the public nature of some of the resources. Another fear that many practitioners have is possibility of inaccurate information being spread and the possible misuse of that information. Finally, there is an issue in that social media medication adherence resources would only fit in certain situations and for certain groups of people; for instance, a primary group of people suffering from chronic conditions are senior citizens which are much less likely to utilize social media.4, 8, 17 However, despite some of the challenges, there is very much a need for pharmacists to participate in social media health resources because of the rising trend of social media usage, and pharmacist participation could help to avoid mis-information. Even though social media usage in the health field is trending to be more universal and medication adherence is a common topic, there has been little research done relating to pharmacist usage of medication adherence social media resources. Questions rise relating to if pharmacists know such resources are available, what views they have on using those resources, if they believe the resources are effective, and how commonly are these resources