2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.japh.2016.03.001
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Counseling of children and adolescents in community pharmacies: Results from a 14-day observational study

Abstract: Children infrequently accompany their parents to pick up their prescriptions, which limits pharmacists' opportunities to counsel children about their medications. Even when children are present, they rarely receive counseling from pharmacists.

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“…Participants were recruited from 3 community pharmacies: 1 located in rural western North Carolina and 2 in an urban region of western Pennsylvania. Based on the study objectives and earlier observational findings, 21 children participants were eligible if they could speak English, were 7 to 17 years of age, and took medication for a chronic condition, such as asthma, diabetes, depression, or attention deficitehyperactivity disorder. We purposefully included children with various chronic conditions and ages who might have different capabilities and cognitive development to better understand pediatric day-to-day medication use experiences and communication with pharmacists.…”
Section: Study Setting Recruitment and Participantsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Participants were recruited from 3 community pharmacies: 1 located in rural western North Carolina and 2 in an urban region of western Pennsylvania. Based on the study objectives and earlier observational findings, 21 children participants were eligible if they could speak English, were 7 to 17 years of age, and took medication for a chronic condition, such as asthma, diabetes, depression, or attention deficitehyperactivity disorder. We purposefully included children with various chronic conditions and ages who might have different capabilities and cognitive development to better understand pediatric day-to-day medication use experiences and communication with pharmacists.…”
Section: Study Setting Recruitment and Participantsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, community pharmacists only counsel children about their medications 2% of the time. 40 Opportunities for pharmacists to engage children in pertinent medication and health-related discussions may also be limited by state laws. For example, 39% of states do not allow pharmacists to administer human papillomavirus vaccinations.…”
Section: Current Challengesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Methodological limitations involve relying on parent and child reports of communication rather than direct observation of interactions, which can be problematic because of providers' overestimation of how often they engage youth in healthrelated discussions. 40…”
Section: Current Challengesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, guidance on effective communication between pharmacists and adolescents in general has not been published by the USA, UK or Australian‐specific pharmacy organizations. Additionally, pharmacists feel inadequately trained in adolescent‐specific issues and they are not always taking the opportunity to provide paediatric‐specific medication counselling …”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Additionally, pharmacists feel inadequately trained in adolescent-specific issues [13] and they are not always taking the opportunity to provide paediatric-specific medication counselling. [14] Aim of the study PharmAlliance is an international partnership between the pharmacy schools of the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill (USA), University College London (England) and Monash University (Australia). PharmAlliance provides opportunities for collaborative international efforts to advance and transform research, education and practice in pharmacy and the pharmaceutical sciences worldwide.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%