Pharmacy staff characteristics associated with support for pharmacy-based HIV testing
| Autor: | Alexis V. Rivera, Natalie D. Crawford, Silvia Amesty, Crystal M. Fuller, Shannon Blaney |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Attitude of Health Personnel Cross-sectional study MEDLINE HIV Infections Pharmacology (nursing) Pharmacy Hiv testing Pharmacists Article law.invention Nursing Randomized controlled trial law Intervention (counseling) Humans Medicine Syringe Pharmacology business.industry HIV virus diseases Clinical pharmacy Cross-Sectional Studies Molecular Diagnostic Techniques Female business Personality |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 52:472-479 |
| ISSN: | 1544-3191 |
| DOI: | 10.1331/japha.2012.10194 |
| Popis: | Objective To determine support of in-pharmacy human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing among pharmacy staff and the individual-level characteristics associated with in-pharmacy HIV testing support. Design Descriptive, nonexperimental, cross-sectional study. Setting New York City (NYC) from January 2008 to March 2009. Participants 480 pharmacy staff, including pharmacists, owners/managers, and technicians/clerks. Intervention 131 pharmacies registered in the Expanded Syringe Access Program (ESAP) completed a survey. Main outcome measure Support of in-pharmacy HIV testing. Results Support of in-pharmacy HIV testing is high among pharmacy staff (79.4%). Pharmacy staff who supported in-pharmacy vaccinations were significantly more likely to support in-pharmacy HIV testing. Pharmacy staff who thought that selling syringes to injection drug users (IDUs) caused the community to be littered with dirty syringes were significantly less likely to support in-pharmacy HIV testing. Conclusion Support for in-pharmacy HIV testing was high among our sample of ESAP pharmacy staff actively involved in nonprescription syringe sales. These findings suggest that active ESAP pharmacy staff may be amenable to providing HIV counseling and testing to IDUs and warrants further investigation. |
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