Quality of life of contraceptive users at urban community pharmacy / Wan Mohd Hamidi Wan Sulaiman

Introduction: Contraception provides many benefits to married couples or couples on a consensual relationship. This study expects to evaluate quality of life among contraceptive users at community pharmacy settings and in addition to that will provide evidence to community pharmacists to improve the...

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Main Author: Wan Sulaiman, Wan Mohd Hamidi
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Published: 2014
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spelling my-uitm-ir.415632023-03-24T01:32:59Z Quality of life of contraceptive users at urban community pharmacy / Wan Mohd Hamidi Wan Sulaiman 2014 Wan Sulaiman, Wan Mohd Hamidi Quality of life Conception. Artificial insemination. Contraception Introduction: Contraception provides many benefits to married couples or couples on a consensual relationship. This study expects to evaluate quality of life among contraceptive users at community pharmacy settings and in addition to that will provide evidence to community pharmacists to improve their pharmaceutical care in the context of sexual and reproductive health among its customers. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted by administering the WHOQOL BREF questionnaires to customers who obtain condom or contraceptive pills at urban community pharmacies in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. Socio-demographic questionnaires were also administered to the respondents. Respondents' QOL score and socio-demographic characteristics were further analysed and interpreted with appropriate statistical tests. Results: All of 375 respondents reported high quality of life scores in all domains. The mean score for each item were in the range from 3.33 to 3.96. The top three most positive QOL items were: self-esteem (mean = 3.96, SD = 0.68), spirituality/religion/personal beliefs (mean = 3.94, SD = 0.71), and personal relationships (mean = 3.87, SD = 0.82). The QOL score among domain were highest in the social domain (mean = 15.37, SD = 2.71) and the lowest score were in the physical domain (mean = 13.56, SD = 1.81). Conclusions: Overall quality of life scores were high in both contraceptive groups and the highest score were reported in the social domain and the lowest in the physical domain. 2014 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/41563/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/41563/6/41563.pdf text en public masters Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Faculty of Pharmacy Manan, Mohamed Mansor
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
advisor Manan, Mohamed Mansor
topic Quality of life
Quality of life
spellingShingle Quality of life
Quality of life
Wan Sulaiman, Wan Mohd Hamidi
Quality of life of contraceptive users at urban community pharmacy / Wan Mohd Hamidi Wan Sulaiman
description Introduction: Contraception provides many benefits to married couples or couples on a consensual relationship. This study expects to evaluate quality of life among contraceptive users at community pharmacy settings and in addition to that will provide evidence to community pharmacists to improve their pharmaceutical care in the context of sexual and reproductive health among its customers. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted by administering the WHOQOL BREF questionnaires to customers who obtain condom or contraceptive pills at urban community pharmacies in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. Socio-demographic questionnaires were also administered to the respondents. Respondents' QOL score and socio-demographic characteristics were further analysed and interpreted with appropriate statistical tests. Results: All of 375 respondents reported high quality of life scores in all domains. The mean score for each item were in the range from 3.33 to 3.96. The top three most positive QOL items were: self-esteem (mean = 3.96, SD = 0.68), spirituality/religion/personal beliefs (mean = 3.94, SD = 0.71), and personal relationships (mean = 3.87, SD = 0.82). The QOL score among domain were highest in the social domain (mean = 15.37, SD = 2.71) and the lowest score were in the physical domain (mean = 13.56, SD = 1.81). Conclusions: Overall quality of life scores were high in both contraceptive groups and the highest score were reported in the social domain and the lowest in the physical domain.
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title Quality of life of contraceptive users at urban community pharmacy / Wan Mohd Hamidi Wan Sulaiman
title_short Quality of life of contraceptive users at urban community pharmacy / Wan Mohd Hamidi Wan Sulaiman
title_full Quality of life of contraceptive users at urban community pharmacy / Wan Mohd Hamidi Wan Sulaiman
title_fullStr Quality of life of contraceptive users at urban community pharmacy / Wan Mohd Hamidi Wan Sulaiman
title_full_unstemmed Quality of life of contraceptive users at urban community pharmacy / Wan Mohd Hamidi Wan Sulaiman
title_sort quality of life of contraceptive users at urban community pharmacy / wan mohd hamidi wan sulaiman
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
granting_department Faculty of Pharmacy
publishDate 2014
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/41563/6/41563.pdf
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