The Effect of Education and Counseling for Oral Contraceptive Pill Use
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
The purposes of this study were to study the effect of education and counseling for oral contraceptive pill use by pharmacy students and to evaluate customerûs satisfaction on this service. The study was conducted at Klung-Ya drug store and Ban Wat village. Data from forty-two subjects were collected by interviewing and using questionnaire for knowledge 2 times including before and one month after receiving education and counseling. The result indicated that customerûs knowledge on medicine use was increased significantly from 12.14 to 17.14 scores (p < 0.05) In conclusion, it can conclude that education and counseling is beneficial for increasing customer knowledge on oral contraceptive pill use. The highest mean of most customer satisfactions were counselor and counseling content.
Article Details
In the case that some parts are used by others The author must Confirm that obtaining permission to use some of the original authors. And must attach evidence That the permission has been included
References
Forsyth AD, Coates TJ, Grinstead OA,et al.2002.HIV infection and pregnancystatusamong adults attending voluntarycounseling and testing in 2 developingcountries. Am J Public Health 92:1795 -1800.
Little P, Griffin S, Kelly JT, et al. 1998. Effectof educational leaflets and questions onknowledge of contraception in womentaking the combined contraceptivepill: randomised controlled trial. BMJ 316:1948 - 1952 .
Nayak R, Brushwood D, Kimberlin C. 2005.Should oral contraceptives be soldwithout a prescription?: An analysisof womenís risk and benefit perceptionsregarding nonprescription birth control pill.Journal of pharmacy practice 18(6):479 - 485.
Raymond E, Chen PL, Dalebout SM. 2003.Actual use study of emergency contraceptive pills provided in a simulatedover - the - counter manner. ObstetGynecol 102: 17 - 23.
Rosenberg MJ, Waugh MS, Meehan TE. 1995.Use and misuse of oral contraceptive:risk indicator for poor pill taking anddiscontinuation. Contraception 51(5):283 - 288.
Schwarz EB, Maselli J, Gonzales R. 2006.Contraceptive counseling of diabeticwoman of reproductive age. ObstetGynecol 107: 1070 - 1074.
The United Nations. 1994. Reproductive Rightand Reproductive Health. In : Programmeof Action of the United Nations Inter-national Conference on Population andDevelopment. pp 37 - 49.
World Health Organization. 1986. The OttawaCharter for Health Promotion. Copen-hagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe.