Skin Cancer Prevention Counseling by Pharmacists: Specific Outcomes of an Intervention Trial
| Autor: | Gerald Graf, Joni A. Mayer, Sandra T. Anderson, Richard C. Palmer, Donald J. Slymen, L Creech, Laura Eckhardt, Christy Rosenberg, John P. Elder, Barbara M. Stepanski |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Adult
Male Cancer Research medicine.medical_specialty Skin Neoplasms education Population Pharmacy Health Promotion Pharmacists Intervention (counseling) medicine Humans Intervention trial education.field_of_study business.industry Middle Aged medicine.disease Dermatology Oncology Family medicine Skin Cancer Prevention Female Skin cancer business |
| Zdroj: | Cancer Detection Prevention. 22:367-375 |
| ISSN: | 1525-1500 0361-090X |
| DOI: | 10.1046/j.1525-1500.1998.cdoa40.x |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of an intervention on pharmacists' behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes related to skin cancer prevention counseling. Fifty-four pharmacy sites (N = 178 pharmacists) were randomly assigned to the intervention or control condition. Intervention consisted of video-based training, prompts installed in the pharmacy to promote pharmacist-patient discussions on the topic, and group-based feedback on previous week's counseling rates. Outcomes were measured using a mailed survey. The proportion of patients counseled at post-test was significantly higher among intervention subjects, adjusting for pretest values. Similar results were found for pharmacists' skin cancer knowledge and self-rated expertise, but not for counseling-related attitudes. The intervention was successful. If implemented on a wide scale, large segments of the U.S. population would be exposed to skin cancer prevention advice. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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