Abstract
When patients who use our Sukoyaka pharmacy, which is community collaboration pharmacy, as primary care pharmacy receive cancer treatment, they will have the opportunity to choose between continuing to use our pharmacy or switching to a specialized medical institution cooperation pharmacy with an oncology pharmacy specialist. Thus, we conducted a questionnaire survey to identify the needs and psychographic characteristics to the oncology pharmacy specialist of visitors.
The questionnaire survey enrolled 65 visitors who received anticancer drug treatment at Sukoyaka pharmacy between January 2020 and February 2021, and the results were analyzed.
A substantially high number of patients preferred the enrollment of a pharmacy specialists in this pharmacy rather than selecting other pharmacies with oncology pharmacy specialists. The psychographic characteristics of visitors with a strong intention to select pharmacies with oncology pharmacy specialists included willingness to consult with a pharmacy pharmacist, ability to collect information from websites, and unique awareness of anticancer drugs. The psychographic characteristics of visitors with a strong intention to enroll oncology pharmacy specialists in this pharmacy included reassurance, willingness to consult with hospital pharmacists, and receptivity to information sharing.
