Pharmacist knowledge of gout management: impact of an educational intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pharmacists play a key role in community gout education. We investigated pharmacist knowledge of gout management and developed an educational intervention which was assessed in a cohort of Irish pharmacists.

Methods

A ten-question questionnaire about gout management was developed to assess pharmacists' knowledge. A 14 min 26 s video educational intervention was co-designed by a rheumatologist, a pharmacist, and designer of pharmacy education resources. The effectiveness of this pharmacy-specific intervention was assessed using the same questionnaire in 53 pharmacists (25 in the intervention group; 28 in the control group). Contingency tables were used to analyse differences between groups.

Results

There were 173 pharmacist respondents to the initial survey;

SUBMITTER: Dorris ER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9125937 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature