EFFECTIVENESS OF A SHORT TRAINING FOR COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS TO IMPROVE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE IN ASTHMA COUNSELLING – A SIMULATED PATIENT METHOD
Author(s)
Nguyen TS1, Nguyen TL2, Hua S1, Pham TT2, Cao TB2, Nguyen VK3, Li SC1
1University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, 2Hanoi University of Pharmacy, Hanoi, Viet Nam, 3Hanoi Health Department, Hanoi, Viet Nam
OBJECTIVES: Community pharmacy is a major link in the asthma therapy chain. However, community pharmacists have insufficient knowledge about asthma and asthma medications for counselling patients effectively in Vietnam. The study aimed to investigate improvement in knowledge and practice of community pharmacists in asthma counselling after attending a short training course METHODS: RESULTS: After the training, number of correct answer and score of asthma knowledge of pharmacists increased remarkably (p<0.001). While there was no pharmacist performed correctly both metered-dose inhaler (MDI) and dry powder inhaler (DPI) in pre-training, >50% performed correctly in post-training (p<0.001). Regarding tested by simulated patients, knowledge and practice of pharmacists in the training group improved significantly. 94.3% of pharmacists in training group could distinguish relievers and controllers compared with under 50% in no-training group (p<0.001). Percentage of pharmacists counselling correctly about controller adherence in training group was statistically higher than no-training group (91.8% vs 63.6%). Pharmacists attended training also performed better in counselling asthma patients about side effects of asthma medications (p<0.001). When teaching patients in pharmacy, inhaler technique score of training group was significantly higher than the no-training group (6.1 vs 4.3, p<0.001) CONCLUSIONS: A short training course was effective in providing community pharmacists with necessary knowledge about asthma and medications to improve quality of counselling asthma patients in community pharmacy
Conference/Value in Health Info
2018-09, ISPOR Asia Pacific 2018, Tokyo, Japan
Value in Health, Vol. 21, S2 (September 2018)
Code
PRS23
Topic
Health Policy & Regulatory, Health Service Delivery & Process of Care
Topic Subcategory
Health Care Research, Health Disparities & Equity, Hospital and Clinical Practices, Prescribing Behavior, Quality of Care Measurement, Treatment Patterns and Guidelines
Disease
Respiratory-Related Disorders