健康サポート薬局におけるヘルスリテラシーを向上させる取り組みのアウトカム評価

抄録

Since 2007, Aozora Pharmacy has been holding a learning class twice a year for pharmacy users and community residents. A survey research was conducted on whether participation in the learning class had any effects on the awareness and behavior of the attendee at a series of learning classes on drugs and health information targeted at users of the pharmacy and community residents. Out of 187 subject attendees, responses were acquired from 91 (48.7％). The number of times of attendance was: once (24.4％), twice (23.1％), three times (6.6％), four times (2.2％), more than five times (13.2％), more than ten times (5.5％) and unknown (13.2％). For the changes in awareness and behavior, 51 people answered “Yes” (56.0％), 28 people answered “No” (30.8％) and 12 people answered “Neither” (12.1％). When the number of attendance became more than three times, the result of correlation significantly showed that those who said “Yes” to changes in awareness and behavior exceeded those that said “No”. Furthermore, a positive correlation（R² = 0.986，P = 0.00135） was found between the number of times of attendance and the ratio of “Yes” for changes. It became clear that a continuous participation in such a learning class has influences on the health literacy of the attendee, and it was suggested that the more the number of attendance grows, the higher the effect is shown.