A qualitative study exploring the impact and consequence of the medicines use review service on pharmacy support-staff

Abstract

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Promoting weight management services in community pharmacy: perspectives of the pharmacy team in Scotland

“…The roles, responsibilities and functions of MCAs, and pharmacy support staff generally, are changing throughout the world [23]. To date, there is a paucity of research which focuses on MCAs and is largely limited to general advice giving, [24][25][26][27] and oral health [28]. Our study adds to the evidence base around MCAs and has demonstrated that while they value their involvement in weight management, confidence levels were variable.…”

Qualitative Research: Getting Started

“…Such a study would also include collection of documents about participants' lives from the participants themselves and field notes from the researcher. 7 • Grounded theory, first described by Glaser and Strauss in 1967, 8 is a framework for qualitative research that suggests that theory must derive from data, unlike other forms of research, which suggest that data should be used to test theory. Grounded theory may be particularly valuable when little or nothing is known or understood about a problem, situation, or context, and any attempt to start with a hypothesis or theory would be conjecture at best.…”

Qualitative Research: Data Collection, Analysis, and Management

“…In this way, it is made clear to the reader that the themes under discussion have emerged from the participants' interviews and not the mind of the researcher. The work of Latif and others 12 gives an example of how qualitative research findings might be presented.…”