Table 6.
Patient views and experience of medicines management advice and information provided by physiotherapist or podiatrist
| Patient views and experience of medicines management advice and information provided by physiotherapist or podiatrist | Physiotherapist Independent Prescriber (n = 27) |
Physiotherapist Non-prescriber (n = 24) |
Mann- Whitney U-test |
Podiatrist Independent Prescriber (n = 31) |
Podiatrist Non-prescriber (n = 13) |
Mann- Whitney U-test |
Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly Agree/Agree | Strongly Agree/Agree | Strongly Agree/Agree | |||||||||||
| N (excluding not applicablea) |
n | % | n | % | p* | n | % | n | % | p* | n | % | |
| 1. The physiotherapist or podiatrist gave me time to clarify questions I may have had about my medicine | 84 | 24 | 96.0% | 19 | 86.4% | 0.627 | 21 | 84.0% | 11 | 91.7% | 0.901 | 75 | 89.3% |
| 2. The physiotherapist or podiatrist told me when to take my medicine | 64 | 11 | 73.3% | 6 | 40.0% | 0.030 | 19 | 82.6% | 9 | 81.8% | 0.719 | 45 | 70.3% |
| 3. The physiotherapist or podiatrist told me how often I should take my medicine | 61 | 12 | 85.7% | 5 | 35.6% | 0.002 | 19 | 86.4% | 9 | 81.8% | 0.835 | 43 | 70.5% |
| 4. The physiotherapist or podiatrist provided me with information on the purpose of my medicine | 75 | 16 | 73.7% | 14 | 70.0% | 0.547 | 19 | 82.6% | 11 | 84.6% | 0.549 | 60 | 80.0% |
| 5. The physiotherapist or podiatrist provided me with information on how to use my medicine | 59 | 11 | 73.3% | 5 | 45.5% | 0.062 | 16 | 80.0% | 10 | 91.0% | 0.608 | 42 | 71.2% |
| 6. I expect that it will be easy to follow the physiotherapist’s or podiatrist’s advice about my medicine | 68 | 12 | 75.0% | 10 | 66.7% | 0.181 | 22 | 91.7% | 11 | 84.6% | 0.346 | 57 | 83.8% |
| 7. The physiotherapist or podiatrist told me the name of my medicine | 71 | 17 | 85.0% | 9 | 60.0% | 0.178 | 18 | 75.0% | 9 | 75.0% | 0.354 | 53 | 74.6% |
| Patient views and experience of medicines management advice and information provided by physiotherapist or podiatrist |
Physiotherapist Independent Prescriber |
Physiotherapist Non-prescriber |
Podiatrist Independent Prescriber |
Podiatrist Non-prescriber |
Total | ||||||||
| Strongly Agree/Agree | Strongly Agree/Agree | Strongly Agree/Agree | |||||||||||
| N (excluding not applicablea) | n | % | n | % | p* | n | % | n | % | p* | n | % | |
| 8. The physiotherapist or podiatrist explained the side effects of my medicine | 63 | 11 | 68.8% | 12 | 70.6% | 0.578 | 13 | 59.1% | 5 | 50.0% | 0.443 | 41 | 65.0% |
| 9. I would have liked to have received more information about my medicine from the physiotherapist or podiatrist # | 73 | 3 | 13.6% | 3 | 17.6% | 0.438 | 0 | 0.0% | 3 | 25.0% | 0.288 | 9 | 12.3% |
| 10. The physiotherapist or podiatrist provided me with information on what to do if I missed a dose of my medicine | 48 | 3 | 25.0% | 3 | 27.3% | 0.795 | 3 | 21.4% | 1 | 9.1% | 0.274 | 10 | 20.8% |
| 11. It may be difficult for me to do exactly what the physiotherapist or podiatrist told me to do in relation to my medicine # | 56 | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 9.1% | 0.038 | 5 | 23.8% | 1 | 9.1% | 0.832 | 7 | 12.5% |
| 12. I’m not sure it will be worth the trouble to take the medicine advised by the physiotherapist or podiatrist # | 62 | 2 | 13.3% | 1 | 8.3% | 0.298 | 1 | 6.7% | 1 | 8.3% | 0.570 | 5 | 8.1% |
| 13. Receiving a prescription for medicine from my physiotherapist or podiatrist reduced my waiting time today | 40 | 4 | 30.8% | 1 | 16.6% | 0.919 | 6 | 46.1% | 6 | 75.0% | 0.446 | 17 | 42.5% |
| 14. I am likely to take the medicine prescribed for me today | 47 | 7 | 36.8% | 2 | 28.5% | 0.022 | 13 | 72.2% | 11 | 100.0% | 0.204 | 33 | 70.2% |
a those patients who did not respond “Yes” to the preceding question “During the consultation today, did the physiotherapist or podiatrist prescribe and/or give you advice and information about medicines(s)?”
*p-value based on Mann Whitney U test utilising the original 5 point Likert scale; for ease of interpretation, the table only displays for each item the number of patients who responded Strongly Agree/Agree
Note that for items labelled # this may not be regarded as a positive response