Pharmacist Counseling on Nutrition and Physical Activity— Part 2 of 2: Helping Patients Make Changes

Dombrowski, Susan R.; Ferro, Lori A.

doi:10.1016/s1086-5802(15)30356-9

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“…Studies have also shown that it is difficult to change fundamental and ingrained behavours such as tobacco smoking, alcohol use, even diet modification by a single health professional group (Kotecki, Elanjian, Torabi, 2000;Turkkan, Kaufman, Rimer, 2000). Hence, health modification efforts require much time and work, by all health care team (Dombroski, Ferro, 1989).…”

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Evaluation of community pharmacists’ involvement in public health activities in Nigeria

Osemene

Erhun

2018

Braz. J. Pharm. Sci.

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The aims of the study were to identify the types, determine the extent of community pharmacists' involvement, and evaluate the factors influencing their participation in public health activities in Nigeria. The study was a cross-sectional survey of randomly selected 130 registered community pharmacies. Pretested questionnaire was the instrument for data collection. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse data. Response rate was 94.9%. The study identified 31 types of public health activities which community pharmacists participated in. Their extent of involvement was highest in patient counseling (4.93 ± 0.25), personal hygiene (4.90 ± 0.37), maintenance of normal blood pressure (4.88 ± 0.32), and techniques for using vagina pessaries (4.85 ± 0.38). Lowest areas of involvement were elimination of smokeless tobacco use (2.27 ± 1.56), use of seat belts when driving (2.03 ± 1.46), and the need to live in a safe neighborhood (1.42 ± 0.53). Inadequate training (96%), lack of pharmacists' time (94.6%), inadequate personnel (92.3%), lack of patients' time (88.5%), lack of profit (85.4%), inadequate space in the pharmacy (82.3%) and inadequate patients' information (69.9%) significantly influenced their participation. The study concluded that community pharmacists would participate more in public health activities if the identified barriers are reduced.

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Evaluation of community pharmacists’ involvement in public health activities in Nigeria

Osemene

Erhun

2018

Braz. J. Pharm. Sci.

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“…(2) Providing students with pertinent literature about wellness, disease prevention, and health promotion and addressing these issues either during daily activities or during discussion sessions. [2][3][4][6][7][8][9] From the foundation, preceptors can build on student's knowledge using several different approaches in their practice. These include students actively participating in the practice's wellness and disease prevention activities, creating new wellness and disease prevention activities for the practice, creating tools and educational materials, discussing pertinent wellness and disease prevention literature, writing newsletters or articles about wellness and disease prevention, marketing wellness and disease prevention services, and assessing outcomes of the programs and services (Figure 1).…”

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“…Students should learn the basic nutrition and exercise information needed for pharmacists to appropriately and effectively counsel their patients regarding either prevention or management of disease. [8][9] This topic is usually not stressed in pharmacy curriculums and APPE's provide an excellent forum for students to learn about nutrition and exercise and practice their patient counseling skills.…”

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Engaging Students in Wellness and Disease Prevention Services

Anderson¹,

Goode²

2006

Am J Pharm Educ

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Pharmacy education has traditionally focused on medications and treatment of disease. However, as an accessible health care professional, pharmacists can influence healthy behaviors in their patients. Encouraging/promoting healthier lifestyles in the United States is essential because the leading causes of mortality are tobacco use, poor nutrition, and inactivity. In order to prepare pharmacists for this role, student pharmacists must be taught how to implement and deliver wellness and prevention services. Community advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs) occur at an ideal point in the curriculum to engage students in these activities. This article provides preceptors with guidance and tools for restructuring the community APPE at their sites to incorporate wellness and disease prevention activities.

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“…[13][14] These unique characteristics have the potential to provide a large population pool in community pharmacies that could be a target of preventive health services. Evidence exists in literature to support involvement of pharmacists in a broad range of activities including advice on preventive health, [15][16] diet and healthy eating [17][18] , smoking cessation, [19][20] sexual health services including emergency hormonal contraceptives, [21][22] cardiovascular risk reduction, [23][24][25] cancer prevention, 26 osteoporosis risk assessment and reduction, [27][28] and other aspects of preventive health care. [29][30] …”

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Evaluating Pharmacist Level of Involvement in disease Prevention Activities in Nigeria

Adje

Oparah

2017

PBJ

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Evidence exists in literature to support involvement of community pharmacists in a broad range of preventive health activities especially in developed countries. There is a need to explore extent of pharmacists' involvement in resource limited countries. The objectives of this study were to describe community pharmacists' involvement in disease prevention strategies and explore facilitators and barriers to involvement. A forty item pretested selfcompletion questionnaire with 0.944 reliability was administered to a convenient sample of 500 community pharmacists in 3 major cities in Nigeria. Self-reported involvement in preventive health strategies was evaluated on a 5 point response scale ranging from 1 (Not involved at all ) to 5 (very much involved). Response rate was 90.6% (453/500). Mean scores on face to face delivery of preventive health service was consistently higher than leaflet or text message. Pharmacists were mostly involved in preventive health services in the area of hypertension mean (4.38±0.91) followed by Diabetes (4.35±0.86) ST1 (4.27±0.84) and weight reduction (3.39±1.37). Areas of least involvement include osteoporosis (2.2±1.25), hyperlipidemia (2.9±1.43), travel health (2.33±1.33) and cancer risk assessment (1.67±0.96).Lack of adequate training was the most frequent reason for low level of involvement.Community pharmacists in Nigeria are involved to varying extent in a wide range of preventive health activities. Areas of low involvement in this study indicate a need for capacity building in order to increase level of community pharmacist involvement in preventive health activities.

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Pharmacist Counseling on Nutrition and Physical Activity— Part 2 of 2: Helping Patients Make Changes

Cited by 10 publications

References 9 publications

Evaluation of community pharmacists’ involvement in public health activities in Nigeria

Evaluation of community pharmacists’ involvement in public health activities in Nigeria

Engaging Students in Wellness and Disease Prevention Services

Evaluating Pharmacist Level of Involvement in disease Prevention Activities in Nigeria

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