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Counselling in Pharmacy Practice: Exploring the Use of Online Counselling Interactions to Improve Medicine Use among People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)
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Author(s): Margaret Olubunmi Afolabi (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria), Oladipo Olugbenga Babalola (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria)and Omoniyi Joseph Ola-Olorun (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 13
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Online Guidance and Counseling: Toward Effectively Applying Technology
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): B.I. Popoola (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria)and O.F. Adebowale (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-204-4.ch007
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Abstract
Online interactivity is not commonly employed by patients and health professionals to solve drug related problems, and many patients have yet to explore the various possibilities available on line to get counsel about the medicine they use. Online counselling is relatively easy for people to gain access to professional counsellors. It also creates an anonymous environment, which makes it easier to talk about personal problems and provides larger access to messages on preventive health care. Online facilities help provide comprehensive access to counselling by segments of the population that have barrier of access to conventional services. It is particularly useful to meet the psychosocial needs of people on long-term medication and it could be a veritable tool to support adherence to antiretroviral therapy in People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).
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