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Information on ethical drugs is managed by medication notebooks but information on over-the-counter (OTC) drugs and dietary supplements is hardly covered. Therefore, it is important to understand the awareness about medicationnotebook use on the purchase of OTC drugs and dietary supplements and to take measures to improve awareness. In our study, in order to understand the awareness and situation of medication-notebook use and clarify the effect of group instructions for improving the awareness, we gave a lecture about medication-notebook use and investigated items such as awareness about medication notebooks before and after the lecture. We conducted a questionnaire survey in 80 participants in a public lecture in Gifu Municipal Hospital on April 19, 2014. The lecture explained about medication notebooks and their usefulness for ethical drugs, OTC drugs and dietary supplements, etc. The items of the questionnaire were, for example, awareness about medication-notebook use for ethical drugs, OTC drugs and dietary supplements (Likert scale, evaluation 1-5). The recovery rate of questionnaires was 80.0%. Regarding the awareness about medication-notebook use for OTC drugs and dietary supplements, the rates of evaluations 4 and 5 before the lecture were low (30-50%) regardless of ways of purchasing them, but the evaluations increased significantly after the lecture (P < 0.05). Our study clarified that awareness about using medication-notebooks for OTC drugs and dietary supplements is insufficient at present and suggested that group instructions about medication-notebook use improve awareness.

Effect of Group Instructions for Improving Awareness about Medication-notebook Use on the Purchase of Over-the-counter Drugs and Dietary Supplements