Table 4: Treatment satisfaction at the end of the study in patients treated with thirst-quenching lozenges.
Questions | Patient satisfaction, n | ||||||
Extremely dissatisfied | Very dissatisfied | Dissatisfied | Somewhat satisfied | Satisfied | Very satisfied | Extremely satisfied | |
How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the ability of the medication to prevent or treat your condition? | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 27 | 32 | 11 |
How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the way the medication relieves your symptoms? | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 27 | 28 | 13 |
How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the amount of time it takes the medication to start working? | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 35 | 22 | 6 |
As a result of taking this medication, do you experience any side effects at all? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
How easy or difficult is it to use the medication in its current form? | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 22 | 40 | 14 |
How easy or difficult is it to plan when you will use the medication each time? | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 40 | 25 | 12 |
How convenient or inconvenient is it to take the medication as instructed? | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 33 | 27 | 14 |
Overall, how confident are you that taking this medication is a good thing for you? | 0 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
How certain are you that the good things about your medication outweigh the bad things? | 2 | 8 | 16 | 42 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
Taking all things into account, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with this medication? | 0 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 30 | 23 | 13 |
Total | 2 | 16 | 44 | 124 | 246 | 197 | 83 |