Prevalence of subjective symptoms among hospital pharmacists and association with drug compounding practices.

Abstract:

:In Japan, the principal role of hospital pharmacists has changed from that of dispensing medicines for outpatients to provision of clinical pharmacy services for inpatients. A self-administered questionnaire about subjective symptoms, working patterns, work environments and job satisfaction was administered to 495 hospital pharmacists and 84 prefectural office-based pharmacists (control group). The response rates were 63.4% and 90.5%, respectively. Hospital pharmacists showed a higher prevalence of nasal symptoms than that shown by the control office-based pharmacist group. The prevalence rate of nasal symptoms was lower only in male pharmacists who worked in a dispensary equipped with dust collector. The prevalence of symptoms noticed by hospital pharmacists and community pharmacists after starting drug compounding practices was also compared. The prevalence of subjective symptoms that pharmacists noticed after starting drug compounding was lower in hospital pharmacists than in community pharmacists. Job satisfaction was lower in hospital pharmacists than in office-based pharmacists; however, there was no clear association between the subjective symptoms reported and job satisfaction. Further studies on removal effect of drug dust in a dispensary and symptoms in individual pharmacy facilities are needed.

journal_name

Ind Health

journal_title

Industrial health

authors

Inaba R,Hioki A,Kondo Y,Nakamura H,Nakamura M

doi

10.2486/indhealth.2013-0109

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-01-01 00:00:00

pages

100-8

issue

1

eissn

0019-8366

issn

1880-8026

pii

DN/JST.JSTAGE/indhealth/2013-0109

journal_volume

53

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