Publications by authors named "Mychal Voorhees"
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- * The acceptability of the journey guide was assessed through surveys and semistructured interviews with 19 participants from a clinic and a BPI network, focusing on their satisfaction and experience.
- * Results showed high satisfaction ratings for the journey guide, especially in terms of its usefulness and relevance to the BPI community, with positive feedback highlighting the effectiveness of visuals and quotes in enhancing clarity and engagement.
To develop a comprehensive instrument specific to student pharmacist-patient communication skills, and to determine face, content, construct, concurrent, and predictive validity and reliability of the instrument. A multi-step approach was used to create and validate an instrument, including the use of external experts for face and content validity, students for construct validity, comparisons to other rubrics for concurrent validity, comparisons to other coursework for predictive validity, and extensive reliability and inter-rater reliability testing with trained faculty assessors. Patient-centered Communication Tools (PaCT) achieved face and content validity and performed well with multiple correlation tests with significant findings for reliability testing and when compared to an alternate rubric.
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- In 2011, St. Louis, Missouri launched a partnership aimed at enhancing access to health information through its urban public library system.
- The project involved assessing community health information needs, training library staff, and installing information kiosks to distribute health materials, along with hosting health-related programs.
- The initiative expanded to include local social service and community organizations, ensuring long-term sustainability and alignment with the community's health and wellness goals.
Objective: Evaluate curricular changes related to health literacy and determine impact on independent-living senior residents as part of an introductory pharmacy practice experience for third-year student pharmacists.
Design: Students were randomly assigned a resident whom they visited multiple times to conduct assessments and provide various services using three methods: Ask Me 3™ Four Habits Model, and Teach-back.
Setting: The study was conducted at independent-living apartments within a 24-mile radius from the St.