A qualitative assessment of West Virginia pharmacist activities and attitude in diabetes management

Shatnawi, Aymen; Latif, David A.

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“…These results are in line with those of studies from Qatar, Canada, and the United States. 16,20,28,29 The majority of pharmacists admit that more attention should be paid to the seriousness of complications, to the community pharmacists' responsibility, and to the importance of screening pre-diabetes.…”

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Understandings, Attitudes, and Barriers About Diabetes Care: Analysis of Factors Influencing Community Pharmacists in China

Jia¹,

Pei²,

Yang³

et al. 2021

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Purpose Diabetes mellitus (DM) has been known as a major chronic health problem in China. Suboptimal management of diabetic patients may incur serious complications, even death. The quality of post-hospital care has a good relationship with community pharmacists. However, data describing the current situation from care between community pharmacists and patients in China are lacking. Our article is to investigate community pharmacists’ activities, evaluate their attitudes towards providing diabetes care, assess their understandings, and identify perceived barriers. Methods A survey divided into four parts was carried out randomly in China. The part of basic characteristics, understandings, and pharmacists’ perceived barriers was rated with a few listed choices scales, while the Likert scale was used to identify on the part of attitudes. Quantitative data were shown in frequency and valid percent. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and non-parametric test conducted on data. A P-value ≤0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results A total of 737 surveys were collected. The respondent pharmacists maintained a simply moderate understanding of diabetes care and the pharmaceutical services provided met basic needs rather than clinical ones, though they showed a good momentum towards providing better service. The respondent pharmacists considered patients lacking knowledge on self-management, shortage of funds as the main barriers. Conclusion Efforts are supposed to make to expand pharmacists’ scope of practice, lessen patients’ reluctance, and create platforms for pharmacists receiving further education.

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Understandings, Attitudes, and Barriers About Diabetes Care: Analysis of Factors Influencing Community Pharmacists in China

Jia¹,

Pei²,

Yang³

et al. 2021

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“…In this sense, governing bodies, such as Center for the Advancement of Pharmacy Education (CAPE) or Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) may plan or carry out larger studies or reviews to generate updated guidelines and regulations on teaching/learning strategies [14,23]. Besides monitoring and registering undergraduates’ progress, schools of pharmacy should keep track of the professional outcomes and/or knowledge of their graduate pharmacists [17,18].…”

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“…The improvement of students’ ability to communicate with patients is classified as a learning outcome already included in many pharmacy curricula [16]. Another aspect is that many schools of pharmacy are trying to find ways not only to improve undergraduates’ professional development, but also to assess and keep track of this process during the pharmacy course, as well as throughout their professional career (i.e., after pharmacy graduation) [10,16,17,18].…”

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Scoping Pharmacy Students’ Learning Outcomes: Where Do We Stand?

Pires

Cavaco

2019

Pharmacy

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Background: The professional abilities of graduate pharmacists have been associated with pharmacy undergraduates’ educational settings and features. This study aimed to perform a scoping review on how students’ learning outcomes are achieved, including learning assessment strategies, focusing on current pharmacy practice education. Methods: Relevant keywords, e.g., “pharmacy practice”, “(students or undergraduates)” and “outcomes” were browsed in Public/Publisher MEDLINE, Scientific Electronic Library Online, Directory of Open Access Journals, and other relevant databases for recently published sources (2018 and 2017). Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses criteria were followed to assure the scoping quality. All types of students’ learning outcomes were addressed for indexed publications in English, Portuguese or Spanish. Reviews, descriptive studies and commentaries were excluded. Study data are presented in tables comprising objectives, methods, number of participants and main research findings. Results: Overall, 100 studies were identified and 22 were selected. The selected studies were distributed into seven main topics: real practices (n = 9); active-learning strategies (n = 5); comparisons between different teaching pedagogies (n = 3); pharmacy curriculum (n = 2); and other evaluations (n = 3). Conclusions: Studies on pharmacy students’ learning outcomes are limited. Pharmacy undergraduates’ performance was dependent on the learning strategies and extension of syllabus implementation.

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“…Research on barriers to disease state management by pharmacists for people with diabetes have identified practice site environment barriers including time constraints and workload, lack of reimbursement, lack of support by the patient's physician, lack of pharmacy management support and lack of patient knowledge of the pharmacist's ability. 16 Participants in the Canadian Pharmacy Thought Leadership Summit felt more strongly about the impact that system and workplace-level barriers had on the advancement of the profession of pharmacy as compared with individual and education-level barriers, specifically poor understanding of the scopes of practice/services of pharmacy professionals in the health care system and too many competing priorities in the pharmacy workplace. 17 If these were the same barriers resulting in lack of follow-up in the MCD research, it does not explain why pharmacists were able to overcome these barriers to deliver more than 400,000 initial medication assessments but were unable to provide follow-up evaluations.…”

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Follow-up in community pharmacy should be routine, not extraordinary

MacCallum

Dolovich

2018

Can Pharm J

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Almost one-third of Canadians have a diagnosis of 1 of the top 5 chronic diseases, including diabetes. 1 It is well accepted that people with chronic diseases benefit from regular longterm use of medications, and maintaining adherence and continuity of care have been identified as priorities for the delivery of quality and effective health care. 2,3 Almost 75% of Canadian pharmacists practise in community pharmacy, and therefore, pharmacists are in a unique position to provide ongoing, longitudinal care and follow-up. 4,5 In fact, people with diabetes will see a pharmacist more often than any other health care provider, but this is one of the chronic diseases in which improvement in follow-up activities is necessary to ensure patients are achieving healthy outcomes. 6,7

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A qualitative assessment of West Virginia pharmacist activities and attitude in diabetes management

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

Understandings, Attitudes, and Barriers About Diabetes Care: Analysis of Factors Influencing Community Pharmacists in China

Understandings, Attitudes, and Barriers About Diabetes Care: Analysis of Factors Influencing Community Pharmacists in China

Scoping Pharmacy Students’ Learning Outcomes: Where Do We Stand?

Follow-up in community pharmacy should be routine, not extraordinary

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