Factors Related to Elderly Care Among Clinical Pharmacists in Nakhonpathom Province
Keywords:
Attitude, Elderly Care Behavior, Clinical PharmacistAbstract
This descriptive research purposed for study on elderly care attitude, behaviors and relationship between attitude and behavior toward elderly care. The stratified random samples were 131 clinical pharmacists in Nakhonpathom Province. The research questionnaire had 3 parts, 1) the background characteristics 2) elderly care attitudes and 3) elderly care behaviors among clinical pharmacists in Nakhonpathom Province. The validity of content was .67-1.00 by IOC. The overall reliability was .98 by Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient. Data were statistically analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearson’s correlation coefficient for correlation test.
The results reveal that samples had high 1) attitude toward elderly care (M = 3.98, SD = .433) and 2) elderly care behavior among clinical pharmacist (M = 3.69, SD = .683). Moreover, elderly care team workings were least in subscale. Furthermore, there was substantial association between attitude and behaviors toward elderly care, statistically significant at .001 (r = .510).
The suggestion from these study result can be used for improve elderly care among clinical pharmacist to solve multidisciplinary team working for efficient and safe drug usage.
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