A cross-sectional study comparing emotional intelligence and perceived stress amongst community pharmacists delivering and not delivering a new service.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community pharmacists contribute substantially to public health and person-centred care. Emotional intelligence (EI) may help health professionals better engage with patients, handle stress in challenging situations and, presumably, better introduce and implement new services.

Aim

The study's aims were to compare the EI and perceived stress (PS) levels of community pharmacists who provided a new service to patients with diabetes with their controls who provided standard pharmaceutical services and to test the correlations between the two constructs.

Method

This study used a survey methodology. Well-validated instruments were distributed electronically to all participating pharmacists. To compare the continuous EI and PS data between the two study groups, th

SUBMITTER: Sencanski D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9918812 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature