Pharmacists' acceptability of a men's mental health promotion program using the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Community pharmacists are accessible, knowledgeable, and capable of providing mental health promotion and care in communities. This may not be a role that is recognized by the public, and men in particular. Differences between men and women exist in help seeking practices. Headstrong-Taking Things Head-On is a men's mental health promotion program for community pharmacies that was designed to increase the capacity of community pharmacists in caring for men with lived experience of mental illness and addictions. The program's core components included signage in pharmacies, education and training for pharmacists, and a website for use with patients.

Methods

We applied the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability as the coding scheme to pharmacists' qualitative inter

SUBMITTER: Murphy AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6606526 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature