Drug Safety Patients Use of Information About Medicine Side Effects in Relation to Experiences of Suspected Adverse Drug Reactions: A Cross- Section Survey in Medical In-Patients Krska J and Morecroft CW Corresponding author: Janet Krska, Medway School of Pharmacy, The Universities of Greenwich and Kent, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4 TB, UK E-mail: j.krska@kent.ac.uk Electronic Supplementary Material
Your experiences with s (including tablets, liquids, inhalers and so on) Thank you for agreeing to fill in this questionnaire survey. Please try to answer all of the questions truthfully, but if you do not want to answer a question, please ignore it For questions with tick-boxes (), please put a tick () in the box that is closest to your answer. If you have answered no or can t to some of the questions, the instructions may tell you to miss out some questions. For questions where you are asked to write, please write in the space given. If you prefer to get the researcher to help you to complete any part of this survey, please just ask. Section 1 How you get and use information about s 1. During your hospital stay, has a doctor, nurse or pharmacist talked to you about your s? fully partly 2. During your hospital stay, have you been given any written information about the s you have been prescribed? in my box other written information Go to question 4 3. Have you read the information? Yes 4. During your hospital stay, has a doctor, nurse or pharmacist asked you if you have any worries about taking your s (for example about side effects)? 5. When you get s from your doctor to use at home, do you read the patient information leaflet? 6. When you read the patient information leaflet, what section do you most often read? fully partly it s a new for all my s Never read it Go to question 7 How to take the Advice before you take it What s in your Possible side effects If none of the options are correct, please explain what you do most often 7. Have you ever tried to find out more in general about the s you are taking than is written on the patient information leaflet? it s a new for all my s Never
8. Have you ever tried to find out more about side effects of s you are taking than is written on the patient information leaflet? 9. How have you tried to find out more information about side effects of your s than you can read on the leaflet? it s a new for all my s Never (Go to question 10) Ask doctor nurse or pharmacist Use internet Read book, newspaper or magazine Ask friend or family member If you did else, please explain what 10. How much do you think you know in general about the risks or side-effects of s? 11. Do you feel that you know enough about the risks or side-effects of your s? A great deal A fair amount t very much thing at all Yes Section 2 Your experiences of side effects 12. Do you think you have ever experienced a side effect from one of your s? once more than once, never (Go to Section 3) 13. When was the most recent side effect that you experienced? In the last month In the last year Over a year ago 14. Please can you describe it, in your own words. 15. What was the worst side effect that you have experienced? Please describe it, in your own words. If this is the same as your answer to question 14, please tick here and go to question 16.
16. Thinking about the most recent OR the worst experience, please explain, in your own words, how you decided it was a side effect from a. 17. How sure were you that the experience was a side effect from a? 18. Had you read the information leaflet that came with the? Very sure Fairly sure t very sure t at all sure after it happened before it happened Go to Question 20 19. Did the information leaflet help you to decide whether you had experienced a side effect from your? 20. Did you try to find any other information about the effect? 21. Did this other information help you to decide whether you had experienced a side effect from your? it was although it was not, because it was not, because I could not understand the leaflet after it happened before it happened Go to Section 3, Question 23 Yes 22. Please can you explain, in your own words, why the information you found did or did not help you to decide if you have experienced a side effect from a. Section 3 Your experiences of reporting side effects 23. Have you ever told a doctor, nurse or pharmacist that you think you have experienced a side effect? once more than once Go to question 25
24. Thinking about the most recent occasion you told a doctor, nurse or pharmacist about a side effect, please explain in your own words, what happened. 25. Have you ever submitted a Yellow Card report about a side effect? (This could be for you or for someone else) Section 4 About you 26. How often do you get a on prescription? a health professional suggested it Once a month or more I found out about it myself, but I know that I can, I have not heard of Yellow Card reports Every 1 to 3 months Every 4 to 6 months Less than once a year 27. How many prescribed s do you use regularly? One Two to four Five to eight More than eight 28. How often do you buy a from a pharmacy or shop without a prescription? Once a month or more Every 1 to 3 months Every 4 to 6 months Less than once every 6 months 29. What age group are you in? 18 to 40 41 to 64 65 to 80 Over 80 30. What is the highest level of education you have obtained or reached? Left school at 16 or younger Left school at 17 or 18 Further education University 31. Are you: Male Female 32. What is your ethnic group? White Asian Black Mixed Other Thank you very much for taking the time to complete this survey. The researcher will come to collect it from you later.