scholarly journals A non-randomized interventional study to promote the knowledge, attitude and practices of community pharmacists towards pharmacovigilance

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 3286-3292
Author(s):  
Kumaraguru Anbalagan ◽  
Shanmugasundaram P
Keyword(s):  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Community Pharmacists ◽  
Treatment Quality ◽  
Generation Process ◽  
Interventional Study ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Adequate Sampling ◽  
Sampling Intervals ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Pharmacovigilance promotes the safe and effective use of medicines and thereby optimizes the treatment quality. However, lack of awareness among community pharmacists towards pharmacovigilance decreases the proportion of adverse drug reactions reported and impairs the signal detection process. Hence this study was designed to assess and promote the awareness and attitude of community pharmacists towards pharmacovigilance. This educational interventional study was carried out with 102 community pharmacists across Chennai. A pre-validated three domain-containing questionnaire, 20 items was used to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice before and after the educational intervention.  Knowledge, attitude and practices of community pharmacists towards pharmacovigilance was significantly increased after the educational intervention (P<0.05, 95%CI). Median difference in an overall score of knowledge and practice was observed to be 4 and 4.5, respectively.  Though the frequency of ADR reporting was not found to be greatly increased in our study, mass educational programs with adequate sampling intervals are needed to strengthen the signal generation process.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of an educational intervention on knowledge-attitude-practice of older adults’ caregivers

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 1055-1062 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andréa Carvalho Araújo Moreira ◽  
Maria Josefina da Silva ◽  
Juan José Tirado Darder ◽  
Janaína Fonseca Victor Coutinho ◽  
Maristela Inês Osawa Vasconcelos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Adult Feeding ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

ABSTRACT Objective: To compare the knowledge, attitude and practice of older adults’ caregivers before and after an educational intervention in the domains of the care between caregiver and older adult, feeding, bathing, hygiene and mobility and transportation. Method: Quasi-experimental study carried out with 82 caregivers, of which 34 participated in the intervention. Interviews were conducted through a knowledge, attitude and practice research on the older adults` care Results: The educational intervention led to improvements in knowledge, attitude and practice, with statistical significance of attitude (p <0.020) and practice (p <0.001), in the domain of the care between caregiver and older adult; knowledge (p <0.001) and practice (p <0.003) in feeding; Knowledge (p <0.001) and practice (p <0.001) in bathing and hygiene; and knowledge (p <0.001), attitude (p <0.001) and practice (p <0.001) in mobility and transportation. The analysis of the 34 caregivers who started and completed the study showed an improvement in attitude in most of the domains. Conclusion: the educational intervention is an effective and viable strategy for older adults’ caregivers.

scholarly journals Educational intervention to improve knowledge, attitude and practice of pharmacovigilance among nursing staff in tertiary care hospital

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 1806
Author(s):  
Sadhana Hingorani ◽  
Chaitali Mehta ◽  
Paresh Gajera ◽  
S. K. Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Causality Assessment ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Training Session ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Background: The present study was planned to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice among nursing staff and to evaluate the effect of educational intervention.Methods: The questionnaire related with knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) were given to nursing staff before and after the educational intervention in a tertiary care hospital. The data obtained were subjected to statistical analysis.Results: The training given in different sessions has improved KAP among nursing staff. Ninety six percent of them responded correctly regarding who can report ADR as compared to pre training session (69%). Regarding pharmacovigilance as purpose of safe use of medicines was responded by 71% after training as compared to 54% before training. In questions related to PvPI, 94% of nursing staff responded correctly about the scale to be used for causality assessment in comparison to 79% before training. Majority of them were of opinion that only unknown and serious ADR should be reported whereas after training they answered that all the ADR should be reported. A significant improvement has been noticed in questions related to attitude and practice.Conclusions: The educational intervention to improve KAP among nursing staff has resulted in significant improvement.

scholarly journals A pilot project to assess community pharmacists' knowledge and caring behaviors for recurrent headache sufferers after a migraine-focused educational intervention

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly A. Murray ◽  
Monica L. Skomo ◽  
Sandra M. Carter
Keyword(s):  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Community Pharmacists ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Current Treatment ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Community Pharmacies ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Before And After

Objectives: (1) Compare pharmacists' self-assessed knowledge of migraine before and after an educational intervention; (2) Compare pharmacists' self-reported care behaviors following an educational intervention with a control group of pharmacists; (3) Identify interactions between the educational intervention results and individual independent variables. Design: Quasi-experimental, parallel design. Setting: Twenty community pharmacies in northeastern Oklahoma from March to May 2010. Participants: 49 pharmacists at one of twenty community pharmacies, with active and in-good-standing Oklahoma pharmacy licenses. Intervention: Two-hour educational session on migraine identification and current treatment. Main outcome measures: Compare pharmacists' self-assessed knowledge of migraine before and after an educational intervention and compare self-reported care behaviors of these same pharmacists with a control group of pharmacists. Results: Pharmacists' self-assessed knowledge mean scores were significantly higher post-intervention compared to pre-intervention (p<0.0001). Self-assessed knowledge was higher in the intervention group post-questionnaire scores compared to the control group of pharmacists (p=0.004). Intervention group pharmacists were more confident in their ability to maintain knowledge of migraine (p=0.04). No difference was seen regarding difficulty in providing care for a migraineur (p=0.16) or in how the pharmacists perceived employer culture (p=0.79). No significant interactions were found between the educational intervention and demographic variables collected. Conclusion: Attending an educational program on migraine improved pharmacists' knowledge and confidence when providing care to migraineurs.   Type: Original Research

Community Pharmacists’ Perceptions of Care Following the Implementation of a Transitions-of-Care Program

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 586-591
Author(s):  
Jove Graham ◽  
Lorraine D. Tusing ◽  
Christina M. Gregor ◽  
Eric A. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Community Pharmacists ◽  
Care Program ◽  
Health Care Team ◽  
Transitions Of Care ◽  
Healthcare Team ◽  
Interventional Study ◽  
High Confidence ◽  
Adequate Information ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Area Of Concern

Background: Pharmacist-led collaborative interventions can support improved medication use and adherence during transitions of care (TOC). Community pharmacists are not always actively connected with other health-care team professionals, however, and their confidence in having necessary information may vary. Objective: To assess community pharmacists’ perceptions of information, care provided, and communication, before and after a postdischarge intervention designed to increase communication between inpatient and community pharmacists. Methods: A survey assessing 4 domains related to pharmacists’ perceptions of information and care of hospital discharge patients was developed and distributed to 106 community pharmacists before and after a TOC interventional study. Results: Based on 151 responses (77 baseline, 74 followup) from 84 participants, community pharmacists have high confidence in their ability to counsel and feel that they are an important part of the healthcare team. They are less confident that they have adequate information about patients and report gaps in having adequate support and resources to provide care. When a TOC intervention was implemented, there was significant improvement in community pharmacists’ feeling of having adequate information about the patients. Conclusion: Not having adequate information regarding patients discharged from the hospital is an area of concern for community pharmacists and a modifiable opportunity to improve TOCs.

scholarly journals A novel method for psychotropic drugs education: An interventional study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Tabandeh ◽  
Ladan Zarshenas ◽  
Manoosh Mehrabi ◽  
Ali akbar Nekooeian ◽  
Ebrahim Moghimi Sarani
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Clinical Education ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Interventional Study ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Rate Of Learning

Abstract Background: Familiarity with and management of drugs side-effects are among nurses’ main educational needs with respect to pharmacological care in psychiatry departments. This study aimed to determine the effects of psychoactive drugs education through mobile phone and group discussion on nursing students’ attitude, satisfaction, and learning.Methods: This interventional study was done in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 2018. The participants included 40 nursing students passing the mental health apprenticeship in their 6 th educational semester. The 32 students with inclusion criteria were randomly divided into two groups each containing 16 subjects. The first group underwent the educational intervention through group discussion within the first two weeks of apprenticeship. The second group, on the other hand, received the educational intervention through mobile phones over the second two weeks of the course. The students’ learning, attitude, and satisfaction were assessed before and two weeks after the intervention and were compared two groups. After all, the data were entered into the SPSS statistical software, version 16 and were analyzed using descriptive and inferential (paired and independent t-test) statistics. P<0.05 was considered to be statistically significant.Results: The results showed a significant difference in the two groups’ rate of learning before and after the intervention (p=0.00). However, no significant difference was found between the two groups in this regard (p=0.158). The results also revealed a significant difference in the two groups’ satisfaction with the instruction method before and after the intervention. A significant difference was also observed between the two groups in this regard (p=0.043). Finally, the results indicated that the students in the mobile phone group developed a significantly more positive attitude after the intervention compared to baseline (p=0.038).Conclusions: The study results demonstrated that mobile teaching methods could be effective in students’ learning, satisfaction, and attitude. Thus, further studies are recommended to be conducted on other medical and nursing apprenticeships, so that such methods can be used in clinical education in case of obtaining similar results.

scholarly journals A questionnaire based study-assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice of pharmacovigilance among health care professionals, pre and post educational intervention

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 638
Author(s):  
Husna Fatima ◽  
Ghulam Subhani ◽  
Mohammed Mohsin ◽  
D. Nageswari Devi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Background: Pharmacovigilance (PV) is an important tool in generating adverse drug reaction (ADR) data. However, the practice of PV is still very low among health care professionals due to lack of knowledge and awareness. This study was conducted to assess the level of  knowledge, awareness and practice of PV among health care professionals and to assess subsequent change in these after PV training session.Methods: A cross sectional questionnaire based study was conducted among health care professionals of a tertiary health care and teaching institute. Participants were given a questionnaire. They completed it before and after undergoing training programme in PV. Impact of effectiveness of educational intervention (continuing medical education-CME (pharmacovigilance workshop) was evaluated by paired t-test.Results: Out of 110 participants, 96 participants completely filled the questionnaire before and after the educational intervention (CME). CME on PV was found to increase knowledge and positive attitudes towards various aspects of PV.Conclusions: Training programme on PV will help increase the knowledge as well as awareness about principles and techniques of PV and improve the rate of spontaneous ADR reporting. Organising frequent CME programmes and workshops will increase the credibility of health care in the country. 

The fundamental role of educational intervention on improving health care workers’ knowledge, attitude and practice towards infection control precautions

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasha H. Bassyouni ◽  
Ahmed-Ashraf Wegdan ◽  
Naglaa A El-Sherbiny
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Infection Control ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Standard Precautions ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Atp Bioluminescence ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

To evaluate the role of educational intervention on health care workers' (HCWs) compliance to standard precautions and cleaning of frequently touched surfaces at critical care units, forty-nine HCWs at 2 intensive care units (ICUs) and one neonatology unit at Fayoum University hospital were evaluated for knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) towards standard precautions as well as obstacles affecting their compliance to standard precautions before and after a 32-hour purposed-designed infection control education program. A structured self-administrated questionnaire as well as observational checklists were used. Assessment of Environmental cleaning was investigated by observational checklist, ATP bioluminescence and aerobic bacteriological culture for 118 frequently touched surfaces. Pre-intervention assessment revealed that 78.6% of HCWs were with good knowledge, 82.8% with good attitude and 80.8% had good practice. Obstacles identified by HCWs were as follow: making patient-care very technical (65.3%), deficiency of hand washing facilities (59.2%), skin irritation resulting from hand hygiene products (51%), and unavailability of PPE (38.8%). High significant improvements of knowledge, attitude and practice were detected after one month of educational intervention (P= 0.000). During the pre-interventional period only 30.5% of surfaces were considered clean versus 97.45% post intervention (P< 0.05). The highest Median ATP bioluminescence values were obtained from telephone handset, light switches and Blood pressure cuffs. S. aureus was the most common isolated organism followed by Enterococcus spp and E.coli (52, 38 and 19 surfaces respectively). In conclusion, contentious training of HCWs on standard precautions should be considered a mandatory element in infection control programs

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