Abstract
We conducted a questionnaire survey to clarify awareness regarding the usefulness of medication notebooks in disasters and the current status of disaster preparedness in migraine patients. The recovery rate was 67.5% (77/114 patients). Sixty-one percent of migraine patients did not know that a medication notebook was useful for doctors and pharmacists to select an alternate drug or prescription following the Great East Japan Earthquake. Although 66.2% of patients always had extra medication in preparedness for a disaster, the percentages of patients that always carried their medication notebooks or stored them in a location that can be accessed immediately in an emergency were 20.8% and 16.9%. Therefore patients need guidance regarding the management of drugs and preparation for disasters. Results of the survey revealed that awareness of crisis management by individual patients needs to increase.
