Table 1.

Studies’ methods and participant attributes

Study	Medication experience	Pharmaceutical care practice	Illness experience of medically uninsured
Methodology	Phenomenology	Ethnography	Interpretive phenomenology
Methods	Interviews	Interviews, focus groups, participant observation	Interviews
Setting of interviews	University conference rooms and offices	Participants’ homes and clinic exam rooms	Participants’ homes, public library rooms, & university rooms
Participants	Staff and faculty at public university	Patients of pharmaceutical care (PC)	Medically uninsured individuals
Selection criteria	6+ months taking a chronic medication (actual 3–15 years)	2+ years experience with PC	1+ year uninsured, 2+ medical conditions, prescribed meds
Number of participants	5	25	11
Age range	24–60	36–74	27–64
Gender of participants	4 women, 1 man	17 women, 8 men	8 women, 3 men
Average number of medical conditions per participant	2.8	4	4.5