Questionnaire on Assessment of Paediatric Drug Shortages in Primary Health Care in Osun State, Nigeria

The instrument consists of five sections, tabbed A through E. Section A comprises a ten-item demographic data which seeks to elicit information on the general demographic characteristics of the participants. Section B seeks information on paediatric drug classes affected by drug shortages on a five-point scale of the frequency in which they are affected including (1) Never (Nev) = Never occurred before (2) Rarely (Rar) = Occurs about once every 3 months (3) Sometimes(Som) = Occurs about once every other month (4) Often (Oft) = about once within a month, and (5) Always (Alw) implying ‘At least once within 2 weeks’.

The third section, C, seeks information on the causes of paediatric drug shortages in primary health care on a scale of VL = Very Low influence (1), L = Low influence (2), MoI = Moderate influence (3), H = High influence (4), VH = Very High influence (5). The fourth section, D, seeks information on the effect of drug shortages paediatric drug shortages on a scale consisting of (1) I can’t say = ICS; (2) No Effect = (NoE); (3) Little Effect (LiE); (4) Moderate Effect (ME) and (5) Large Effect (LaE) while the last, Section E seeks information on the Strategies for preventing paediatric drug shortages in primary health care on a five-point Likert type scale of importance namely (1) I can’t say = ICS; (2) Not Important = NI; (3) Slightly Important =SI; (4) Important = I; and (5) Very Important = VI.