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Community pharmacist-child medication communication: Magnitude, influences, and content

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2005

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Article

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15443191

DOI

10.1331/1544345054003778

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Bibliographic Citation

Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. Vol 45, No.3 (2005), p.354-362

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Nilaward W., Mason H.L., Newton G.D. Community pharmacist-child medication communication: Magnitude, influences, and content. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. Vol 45, No.3 (2005), p.354-362. doi:10.1331/1544345054003778 Retrieved from: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14740/6316

Title

Community pharmacist-child medication communication: Magnitude, influences, and content

Author(s)

Nilaward W.
 Mason H.L.
 Newton G.D.

Abstract

Objective: To describe community pharmacist-child medication communi-cation with respect to its magnitude, influences, and content. Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study. Setting: Indiana. Participants: 460 community pharmacists. Intervention: Mailed questionnaire was used for data collection. Sections included: (1) pharmacists' practice of medication communication with children and with adults; (2) factors influencing the pharmacist's decision to communicate with children about medications; (3) elements of pharmacist-parent and pharmacist-child communication; and (4) demographics. Main Outcome Measure: Daily percentage of children to whom pharmacists talked directly about medications. Results: Response rate was 44.7% with no indications of nonresponse bias. Most respondents were staff pharmacists in chain pharmacies. On average, pharmacists reported engaging in communications about medications with 20.7% of children and 57.0% of adults on a daily basis (t = 23.5, P ≤ .0001). Experience as a preceptor and prescription volume significantly influenced the frequency of pharmacists' communication with either adults or children. Pharmacists provided more medication information to parents than to their children, and more medication information to older children than to younger children. Children of all ages were likely to be comforted and given information about the medicine's taste. Conclusion: Preliminary insights into the interaction between pharmacists and child patients are provided by this study. Considering the relatively low frequency of pharmacist-child communication, interventions aimed at influencing the child's and caregiver's motivation to seek information about the child's care, and improving pharmacist's knowledge about children's cognitive development at various ages may enhance the involvement of children in self-treatment.

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Article
 Child parent relation
 Controlled study
 Counseling
 Drug monitoring
 Human
 Human experiment
 Information processing
 Medical information
 Medical practice
 Patient compliance
 Patient counseling
 Pharmaceutical care
 Pharmacist
 Questionnaire
 Response variable
 Verbal communication
 Adult
 Child
 Counseling
 Cross-sectional study
 Drug self administration
 Family
 Female
 Interpersonal communication
 Male
 Pediatrics
 Pharmacy
 Preschool child
 Statistics
 United States
 Adult
 Child
 Child, Preschool
 Communication
 Community Pharmacy Services
 Counseling
 Cross-Sectional Studies
 Family
 Female
 Humans
 Indiana
 Male
 Pediatrics
 Questionnaires
 Self Administration

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