HIV Patients' Satisfaction with Pharmaceutical Care at a Nigerian Tertiary Healthcare Facility During the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Dalhatu Muhammad AhmadEmmanuel Ebuka AbonyiJoseph Chukwudi UgwuonahPeter Esin OkonShuaibu AliyuLeonard Ighodalo UzairueDon Eliseo Lucero-PrisnoPublished in: Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (2023)
Background: Patients' satisfaction is an important indicator of determining the quality of pharmaceutical care (PC). This study investigated Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) patients' satisfaction with PC at Federal Medical Centre, Keffi-Nigeria and determined the statistical correlation between the respondents' socio-demographic variables and their satisfaction with PC. Methods: This cross-sectional survey study involved 351 randomly selected HIV-positive patients receiving PC in the facility. A Likert-type questionnaire was used for the data collection. Results: The Cronbach's alpha of the questionnaire was .916. The "overall perception of pharmacists' care or service" had a mean satisfaction score of 4.24 ± 0.749 and "the amount of time spent with the pharmacists" had a mean score of 3.94 ± 0.791. No significant association was found between socio-demographic variables and overall patients' satisfaction with PC. Conclusion: The reliability of the questionnaire was high and the HIV patients had a good satisfaction with the PC they received in the facility.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- human immunodeficiency virus
- hiv positive
- end stage renal disease
- antiretroviral therapy
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- hiv infected
- prognostic factors
- hepatitis c virus
- peritoneal dialysis
- men who have sex with men
- palliative care
- south africa
- social media
- primary care
- hiv testing
- big data
- single molecule
- deep learning
- artificial intelligence
- health insurance