Clinical Pharmacists' Knowledge of and Attitudes toward Older Adults.

ABSTRACT: Although pharmacy literature suggests that pharmacists have a positive attitude towards older adults, there is a paucity of studies that have measured pharmacists' knowledge or attitudes towards older people. The purpose of our study was to assess the knowledge and attitudes of hospital pharmacists toward older adults. An electronic survey was distributed over two months to clinical hospital pharmacists across the province of Alberta, Canada. The survey was composed of two validated tools, the Palmore Facts of Aging Quiz (PFAQ) and Kogan's Attitude toward Old People Scale (KOPS). PFAQ is scored from 0 (poor knowledge) to 25 (high knowledge) and KOPS from 34 to 204, with higher than 119 indicating a positive attitude. A total of 153 pharmacists completed the survey (response rate of 24%). T

SUBMITTER: Karis Allen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8544685 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature