Emergency contraceptive pills over-the-counter: a population-based survey of young Swedish women

Larsson, Margareta; Eurenius, Karin; Westerling, Ragnar; Tydén, Tanja

doi:10.1016/j.contraception.2003.11.013

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“…The flexibility and convenience of the pharmacy setting were viewed as benefits to this setting and were the primary reason for attending pharmacy over than other settings such as family planning clinics [63,82,69]. Indeed the majority of women (65%) sampled for a study in Sweden reported that they would prefer to purchase EHC from a pharmacy over visiting a clinic with availability selected as the motive for this choice by most women (64%) [66]. …”

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Public health in community pharmacy: A systematic review of pharmacist and consumer views

2011

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BackgroundThe increasing involvement of pharmacists in public health will require changes in the behaviour of both pharmacists and the general public. A great deal of research has shown that attitudes and beliefs are important determinants of behaviour. This review aims to examine the beliefs and attitudes of pharmacists and consumers towards pharmaceutical public health in order to inform how best to support and improve this service.MethodsFive electronic databases were searched for articles published in English between 2001 and 2010. Titles and abstracts were screened by one researcher according to the inclusion criteria. Papers were included if they assessed pharmacy staff or consumer attitudes towards pharmaceutical public health. Full papers identified for inclusion were assessed by a second researcher and data were extracted by one researcher.ResultsFrom the 5628 papers identified, 63 studies in 67 papers were included. Pharmacy staff: Most pharmacists viewed public health services as important and part of their role but secondary to medicine related roles. Pharmacists' confidence in providing public health services was on the whole average to low. Time was consistently identified as a barrier to providing public health services. Lack of an adequate counselling space, lack of demand and expectation of a negative reaction from customers were also reported by some pharmacists as barriers. A need for further training was identified in relation to a number of public health services. Consumers: Most pharmacy users had never been offered public health services by their pharmacist and did not expect to be offered. Consumers viewed pharmacists as appropriate providers of public health advice but had mixed views on the pharmacists' ability to do this. Satisfaction was found to be high in those that had experienced pharmaceutical public healthConclusionsThere has been little change in customer and pharmacist attitudes since reviews conducted nearly 10 years previously. In order to improve the public health services provided in community pharmacy, training must aim to increase pharmacists' confidence in providing these services. Confident, well trained pharmacists should be able to offer public health service more proactively which is likely to have a positive impact on customer attitudes and health.

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Public health in community pharmacy: A systematic review of pharmacist and consumer views

2011

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“…8,9 Although emergency contraception has been on the global market for several decades and the ECP available in Australia for over a decade, women have limited knowledge about its use. [10][11][12][13] Very few studies in Australia obtaining the ECP from the pharmacy were both positive and negative. Most women said they would use the ECP again if required and would recommend it to a friend.…”

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The emergency contraceptive pill rescheduled: a focus group study of women's knowledge, attitudes and experiences

Hobbs

Taft²,

Amir³

2009

j fam plann reprod health care

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Background and methodology The levonorgestrelcontaining emergency contraceptive pill (ECP), amongst other strategies, has the potential to assist in reducing unintended pregnancy and abortion rates. Since the rescheduling of the ECP in January 2004 to over-thecounter (OTC) status from pharmacies in Australia, there is little information about Australian women's ECP knowledge, attitudes or practice. The aim of the study was to explore Australian women's knowledge of, attitudes towards and experiences of using the ECP, particularly since it has been available OTC. This paper reports a qualitative study using six focus groups, which were conducted between

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“…Evidence suggests that women may hesitate to use ECP because of possible side effects . For example, the incidence of vomiting is 5.6% with levonorgestrel ECP .…”

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Nova Scotia pharmacists' knowledge of, experiences with and perception of factors interfering with their ability to provide emergency contraceptive pill consultations

Whelan

Langille

Hurst

2013

International Journal of Pharmacy Practice

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Emergency contraceptive pills over-the-counter: a population-based survey of young Swedish women

Cited by 26 publications

References 24 publications

Public health in community pharmacy: A systematic review of pharmacist and consumer views

Public health in community pharmacy: A systematic review of pharmacist and consumer views

The emergency contraceptive pill rescheduled: a focus group study of women's knowledge, attitudes and experiences

Nova Scotia pharmacists' knowledge of, experiences with and perception of factors interfering with their ability to provide emergency contraceptive pill consultations

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