Dietary Advice and Collaborative Working: Do Pharmacists and Allied Health Professionals Other Than Dietitians Have  a Role?

McClinchy, Jane; Williams, Julia; Gordon, Lynne Thomas; Cairns, Melinda; Fairey, Gail

doi:10.3390/healthcare3010064

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“…In the five countries with guidance (UK, America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) there was little evidence of these guidelines being enforced [6]. Allied healthcare professionals aside from dietitians usually have no nutrition content included in their training, even though they have identified themselves as having a role in supporting the self-management of patients with long-term conditions and that this has the potential to include dietary advice [7].…”

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Providing Nutrition Care to Patients with Chronic Disease: An Irish Teaching Hospital Healthcare Professional Study

Keaver

O’Meara

Mukhtar

et al. 2018

Journal of Biomedical Education

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An increasing prevalence of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and chronic illness is putting an ever increasing burden on healthcare services and delivery worldwide. Diet contributes significantly to the development of NCDs. Nutrition should therefore be viewed as an important aspect of patient care and be addressed by all healthcare professionals (HCPs). Previous work has highlighted a lack of competency around providing nutrition advice in HCPs; however, positive attitudes towards the importance of nutrition care are well documented in this group. The aim of this study is to document and compare Irish HCPs self-perceived competency towards incorporating nutrition care into practice. The NUTCOMP questionnaire was completed by 206 HCPs in Sligo University Hospital. The findings showed positive attitudes towards the incorporation of nutrition care into HCP practice; however, confidence in knowledge and skills was low, thus missing vital opportunities to prevent and/or treat chronic diseases and improve outcomes in acute illness. Previous nutrition education was associated with greater self-perceived knowledge about and skills in providing nutrition care to patients and positively associated with attitudes towards incorporating nutrition care into practice. HCPs expressed a desire and unmet need for additional and ongoing educational intervention in the area of nutritional intervention.

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confidence: 99%

Providing Nutrition Care to Patients with Chronic Disease: An Irish Teaching Hospital Healthcare Professional Study

Keaver

O’Meara

Mukhtar

et al. 2018

Journal of Biomedical Education

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“…28 Another qualitative study that explored allied health professionals' views regarding the provision of dietary advice to patients, highlighted that TRs report giving dietary advice to help counteract the side effects of radiotherapy. 37 Additionally, in our study, if TRs did provide dietary advice, this tended to be general advice rather than cancer-specific advice on healthy eating.…”

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Therapeutic radiographers’ delivery of health behaviour change advice to those living with and beyond cancer: a qualitative study

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ObjectivesTherapeutic radiographers (TRs) are well placed to deliver health behaviour change advice to those living with and beyond cancer (LWBC). However, there is limited research on the opinions of TRs around delivering such advice to those LWBC. This study aimed to explore TRs’ practices and facilitators in delivering advice on physical activity, healthy eating, alcohol intake, smoking and weight management.Setting and participantsFifteen UK-based TRs took part in a telephone interview using a semi‐structured interview guide. Data was analysed using the framework analysis method.ResultsEmergent themes highlighted that TRs are mainly aware of the benefits of healthy behaviours in managing radiotherapy treatment related side effects, with advice provision lowest for healthy eating and physical activity. Participants identified themselves as well placed to deliver advice on improving behaviours to those LWBC, however reported a lack of knowledge as a limiting factor to doing so. The TRs reported training and knowledge as key facilitators to the delivery of advice, with a preference for online training.ConclusionsThere is a need for education resources, clear referral pathways and in particular training for TRs on delivering physical activity and healthy eating advice to those LWBC.

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“…Doniesienia naukowe z ostatnich lat potwierdzają, że farmaceuci mogą pełnić istotną rolę przy wspieraniu pacjentów w terapii chorób przewlekłych [2][3][4][5]. Zwraca się również uwagę na znaczny potencjał farmaceutów w udzielaniu pacjentom porad żywieniowych [6][7][8]. Jednak niewiele badań poświęconych jest wiedzy na temat odżywania i nawykom żywieniowym samych farmaceutów, podczas gdy brak adekwatnej wiedzy lub nieprawidłowe nawyki w tej dziedzinie mogą znacząco obniżać skuteczność edukacji żywieniowej.…”

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Polish pharmacists – their eating habits and quality of life

Kurnik‐Łucka¹,

Pasieka²,

Rząsa-Duran³

et al. 2020

Farm Pol.

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Polish pharmacists -their eating habits and quality of life Scientific reports suggest that pharmacists can play an important role, especially through nutritional consultation, in supporting patients in the treatment of chronic diseases. At the same time, it is worth noting that the quality of life of pharmacists may indirectly affect the quality of their services. The aim of our work was to examine nutritional habits and nutrition knowledge as well as the quality of life of Polish pharmacists using using two validated questionnaires questionnaires -KomPAN and SF-36. The form containing both questionnaires was available online and was addressed only to Polish pharmacists with an active licensure. Information about the survey was repeatedly published on the website of the Małopolska Apothecary Chamber and the E-farmacja.pl. More than half (61%) of respondents had a normal value of the body mass index (18.5-24.9 kg/m2), more than half (68%) of the respondents declared their physical activity in their free time as moderate or high. More than 70% of the respondents achieved a nutritional knowledge test result defined as "good" (17-25 points). Polish pharmacists declared more frequent consumption of vegetables, fruit and fish, and less frequent consumption of white bread, fast food, fried foods or sweets compared to the population data. The analysis of the SF-36 questionnaire showed a statistically significant correlation between the age of respondents and their physical and mental quality of life component scores. The analysis also revealed a statistically significant correlation between their body mass index and the physical component score. The results of the KomPAN questionnaire indicate that Polish pharmacists, having a very high level of nutritional knowledge, are a potentially useful source of widely available nutritional information. The results of the SF-36 questionnaire especially highlight the low value of the mental dimension of Polish pharmacists' quality of life, which might result from excessive workload and/or high levels of stress.

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Dietary Advice and Collaborative Working: Do Pharmacists and Allied Health Professionals Other Than Dietitians Have a Role?

Cited by 23 publications

References 21 publications

Providing Nutrition Care to Patients with Chronic Disease: An Irish Teaching Hospital Healthcare Professional Study

Providing Nutrition Care to Patients with Chronic Disease: An Irish Teaching Hospital Healthcare Professional Study

Therapeutic radiographers’ delivery of health behaviour change advice to those living with and beyond cancer: a qualitative study

Polish pharmacists – their eating habits and quality of life

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