Driving factors of community pharmacist weight management service: A structural equation modeling approach.

Background: Even though the effectiveness of community pharmacists in helping customers to reduce weight has been evident, few pharmacists provided weight management services (WMS). To drive community pharmacist WMS provision, factors affecting their intention and WMS provision were important to be investigated.

Objective: The present study aimed to explore relationships among pharmacist authority, perceived customer obstruction, WMS performance support, obstacles, and facilitators with intention to provide WMS and WMS rovision using structural equation modeling (WMS.

A systematic review on pharmacists' turnover and turnover intention.

Background: Turnover is an important issue in all healthcare professions including pharmacy practice settings. A high turnover rate of pharmacists, not only has negative financial impact, but also reduces quality of care and patient safety. The high turnover also increases workload and job stress which can increase job errors and decrease job efficiency and performance in pharmacy practices.

Consumption of Calcium and Knowledge About Calcium Sources and Nutrition Labels Among Lower Secondary School Students in Thailand.

Objective: A three study research program was conducted to identify high calcium products available in the market (study I), identify high calcium products that were known or consumed by lower secondary school students in the last three months (study II), and identify the amount and sources of calcium that students had consumed in the prior 24 hours, their knowledge about sources of high calcium and how to interpret calcium information on nutrition labels of food packages (study III).

Methods: In study I, a cross-sectional market survey was employed. In studies II and III, a school-based cross-sectional survey was employed.

Awareness, Intention to Act and Action in the Exercising of Patients' Rights: A Case Study of Patients in Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Background And Objectives: In Cambodia, the patients' rights guideline was officially released in 2007 as a measure of the government policy to promote greater awareness and empower Cambodian people to exercise their rights as patients. The aim of this study was to identify the proportion of patients aware of the existence of patients' rights and compare the proportions of patients intending to exercise their rights and those actually exercising their rights among the aware and unaware groups.

Methods: Data were collected with a structured questionnaire, using face-to-face interview technique, from 142 randomly selected outpatients visiting the Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Anticholinergics and benzodiazepines on cognitive impairment among elderly with Alzheimer's disease: a 1 year follow-up study.

Objective: Age-associated decline in central cholinergic activity makes older adults susceptible to harmful effects of anticholinergics (ACs). Evidence exists of an association between effects of AC medications on cognition. This retrospective cohort study examines how ACs affect cognition among older adults with Alzheimer's disease (AD) who received acetylcholine esterase inhibitors (AChEIs) over the course of 12 months.

Use of Potentially Inappropriate Medications in People With Dementia in Vietnam and Its Associated Factors.

This study examined the use of potentially inappropriate medicines that may affect cognition (PIMcog) in people with dementia and its associated factors. Medical records of all outpatients with dementia attending a tertiary hospital in Vietnam between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2016, were examined. Medicine use was assessed against a list of PIMcog.

Performance of health product risk management and surveillance conducted by health personnel at sub-district health promotion hospitals in the northeast region of Thailand.

Background: Health personnel at sub-district health promotion hospitals (SD-HPHs) are assigned to take responsibility for 15 activities related to health product risk management and surveillance (HP-RM&S). This cross-sectional survey aimed to identify factors that determined their job performance and to record their expressed needs to support HP-RM&S operation. In this study, job performance was defined as completion of all 15 activities.

Calcium consumption for osteoporosis prevention: knowledge, attitudes and behavior in the northeastern region, Thailand.

Objective: Identified Thai adults' knowledge and attitudes towards calcium and determined factors predicting calcium consumption.

Material And Method: One thousand four hundred seventy five Thai adults, aged > or = 20 years old were interviewed, using a semi-structured questionnaire. Knowledge about role of calcium and good sources of calcium was measured using 17 questions.

Australian community pharmacists' practice in complementary medicines: a structural equation modeling approach.

Objective: This survey tested a model of factors influencing pharmacists' practice in relation to complementary medicines (CMs).

Methods: Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data from 212 community pharmacists in New South Wales. Structural equation modeling with AMOS version 6.

Measuring patient satisfaction with diabetes disease state management services in community pharmacy.

Background: Disease state management (DSM) programs for chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes delivered by community pharmacists are a developing trend in health care service delivery. Although patient satisfaction with DSM services is an important indicator of service quality from the consumers' perspective, to date there is no valid and reliable instrument to enable its measurement in the context of a community pharmacy delivered service.

Objective: To develop and validate an instrument to measure patient satisfaction with diabetes disease state management (DDSM) services delivered by community pharmacists.