Item no. Item content
2 I feel confident in my ability to influence patients adherence to their medication
4 I am able to influence patients adherence to their medication
7 I feel confident about counselling my patients about adherence to their medication
11 Counselling and advising patients will be an integral part of my daily job
13 I can change a patients attitude to his medication
15 I am confident counselling patients on their medication
16 I enjoy advising and helping people understand their medication
19 As a pharmacist I will have a lot of patient contact
21 I am good at counselling patients
31 I can empathise with patients and this helps me to talk with them and listen to them
35 I believe that I can improve adherence with medication, in my patients
Table 2: Retained items in Preparedness for Pharmacy questionnaire.