Trial reportTobacco control1998
Training pharmacists and pharmacy assistants in the stage-of-change model of smoking cessation: a randomised controlled trial in Scotland.
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- Strategies to improve the implementation of preventive care in primary care: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Community pharmacy interventions for health promotion: effects on professional practice and health outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Community pharmacy personnel interventions for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Interventions for improving pharmacist-led patient counselling in the community setting: a systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
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- Assessment of pharmacist-led patient counseling in randomized controlled trials: a systematic review.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2014Pooled it
- Review of services provided by pharmacies that promote healthy living.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2012Pooled it
- Training health professionals in smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Smoking cessation guidelines for health professionals: an update. Health Education Authority.Thorax · 2000Guideline
- Assessment of an intensive education program for pharmacists on treatment of tobacco use disorder using an objective structured clinical examination: a randomized controlled trial.BMC medical education · 2022Trial
- A pharmacist health coaching trial evaluating behavioural changes in participants with poorly controlled hypertension.BMC family practice · 2021Trial
- Effectiveness of a pharmacist-delivered smoking cessation program in the State of Qatar: a randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2017Trial
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- Effectiveness of visits from community pharmacists for patients with heart failure: HeartMed randomised controlled trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007Trial
- Reaching adults who smoke cigarettes in rural Appalachia: Rationale, design & analysis plan for a mixed-methods study disseminating pharmacy-delivered cessation treatment.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Article
- Developing and evaluating training for pharmacists to offer a pharmacy-led public health service in primary care.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2022Article
- The effects of a short-term physician training on smoking cessation in a university pulmonary department.German medical science : GMS e-journal · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate a training workshop for community pharmacy personnel to improve their counselling in smoking cessation based on the stage-of-change model.
designA randomised controlled trial of community pharmacies and pharmacy customers.
settingAll 76 non-city community pharmacies registered in Grampian, Scotland, were invited to participate. Sixty-two pharmacies (82%) were recruited. SUBJECTS: All the intervention pharmacy personnel were invited to attend the training; 40 pharmacists and 54 assistants attended. A total of 492 customers who smoked (224 intervention, 268 controls) were recruited during the 12-month recruitment period (overall recruitment rate 63%).
main outcome measuresThe perceptions of customers and pharmacy personnel of the pharmacy support and self-reported smoking cessation rates for the two groups of customers at one, four, and nine months.
resultsThe intervention customer respondents were significantly more likely to have discussed stopping smoking with pharmacy personnel, 85% (113) compared with 62% (99) of the controls (p < 0.001). The former also rated their discussion more highly; 34% (45) of the intervention customers compared with 16% (25) of the controls rated it as "very useful" (p = 0.048). Assuming non-responders had lapsed, one-month point prevalence of abstinence was claimed by 30% of intervention customers and 24% of controls (p = 0.12); four months' continuous abstinence was claimed by 16% of intervention customers and 11% of controls (p = 0.094); and nine months' continuous abstinence was claimed by 12% of intervention customers and 7% of controls (p = 0.089). These trends in outcome were not affected by potential confounders (sex, age, socioeconomic status, nicotine dependence, and type of nicotine replacement product used) or adjustment for clustering.
conclusionsThe intervention was associated with increased and more highly rated counselling, and a trend toward higher smoking cessation rates, indicating that community pharmacy personnel have the potential to make a significant contribution to national smoking cessation targets.
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