Educating Pharmacy Students about Nutrition and Physical Activity Counseling
| Autor: | Bruce D. Clayton, Jerome E. Kotecki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science) business.industry education Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Physical activity Pharmacy Professional responsibility Physical activity level Health promotion Family medicine Preparedness Medicine Health education business Eating habits |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Health Education. 34:34-40 |
| ISSN: | 2168-3751 1932-5037 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19325037.2003.10603523 |
| Popis: | The current study provides measures of association between self-reported beliefs of currently practicing pharmacists and pharmacy students' beliefs about, willingness to provide, and preparedness to provide counseling on nutrition and physical activity following completion of a health education unit. A 3-week health education unit focusing on the pharmacists' role in nutrition and physical activity counseling was developed and implemented in a required nonprescription drug therapy pharmacy course for fifth-year doctor of pharmacy students. As expected, the majority of pharmacy students postintervention believed that diet and physical activity health-related behaviors were very important for the average adult. Furthermore, significantly more pharmacy students believed that it was their professional responsibility to educate patients about diet and physical activity, felt more prepared to educate on diet modification and physical activity, and felt more comfortable with implementing behavioral-modi... |
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