The satisfaction of the study drug was assessed by asking patients "In terms of your satisfaction, how would you rate this pain medication?" 30 minutes after IV administration, using the scale "poor", "fair", "good", and "excellent".
This paper describes a process evaluation of the IDCP; reporting on the extent of exposure, reach and satisfaction of the study participants to program components, and also identifies the contextual mediators, dose delivered, and fidelity of the intervention program.
The most frequently reported outcome measures were laboratory indices (262 studies, 35.41 %), followed by safety (241 studies, 32.57 %), clinical symptom (205 studies, 27.70 %), quality of life (48 studies, 6.49 %), satisfaction of patients (1 study) and economic index (1 study).
But, in this study, only 50% of participants adopted a contraceptive method in the 3 months before enrolment, and the degree of satisfaction at study end was very high in all the subjects.
This could have led to a selection of only highly motivated, well-organized GPs with interest to complete the questionnaire, which could produce an overestimation of GPs working in PHCT and of the work satisfaction of the sample studied.
Approximately 94%% of parents and caregivers reported a high level of satisfaction with the study treatment on the MTS, suggesting that the switch did not substantially disrupt health-related quality of life [ 42].
Cleanliness, good housekeeping services and maintenance of hygiene were reported as a determinants of satisfaction in studies in Bangladesh, Gambia, Thailand, India and Iran [ 22, 27, 34, 36, 39, 40].
Specific reasons for this preference were not investigated; however, it could be hypothesised that a positive clinical response would increase the likelihood of overall patient satisfaction with study treatment.
The subjects also indicated their degree of satisfaction with the study treatment on a four-point scale and, further, whether they would recommend the treatment to others.
South African health professionals had the lowest levels of satisfaction in our study but Chirwa et al. (25) found that nurses from South African and Tanzania had higher mean job satisfaction scores than those from Malawi, Swaziland, and Lesotho.
This high level of satisfaction with the study treatment was documented at the first post-treatment evaluation at week 8 and this was consistently reported by the subjects at each clinic visit thereafter.
