Sheridan Janie, Smart Ros, McCormick Ross
The School of Pharmacy, The University of Auckland The School of Population Health, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Int J Pharm Pract. 2010 Oct;18(5):290-6. doi: 10.1111/j.2042-7174.2010.00044.x.
Community pharmacists have successfully been involved in brief interventions in many areas of health, and also provide services to substance misusers. There has been recent interest in community pharmacists providing screening and brief interventions (SBI) to problem drinkers. The aim of this study was to develop a method for measuring prevalence of risky drinking among community pharmacy customers and to explore acceptability of this method to participating pharmacists.
Forty-three pharmacies (from 80 randomly selected) in New Zealand agreed to participate in data collection. On a set, single, randomly allocated day during one week, pharmacies handed out questionnaires about alcohol consumption, and views on pharmacists providing SBI, to their customers. At the end of the data collection period semi-structured telephone interviews were carried out with participating pharmacists.
Pharmacists were generally positive about the way the study was carried out, the support and materials they were provided with, and the ease of the data collection process. They reported few problems with customers and the majority of pharmacists would participate again.
The method developed successfully collected data from customers and was acceptable to participating pharmacists. This method can be adapted to collecting data on prevalence of other behaviours or medical conditions and assessing customer views on services.
社区药剂师已成功参与到许多健康领域的简短干预中，并且也为药物滥用者提供服务。近期人们对社区药剂师为问题饮酒者提供筛查和简短干预（SBI）颇感兴趣。本研究的目的是开发一种方法来测量社区药房顾客中危险饮酒的患病率，并探讨该方法对参与研究的药剂师的可接受性。
新西兰80家随机抽取的药房中有43家同意参与数据收集。在一周内某一个固定、单一且随机分配的日子里，药房向其顾客发放关于酒精消费以及对药剂师提供SBI看法的问卷。在数据收集期结束时，对参与研究的药剂师进行了半结构化电话访谈。
药剂师总体上对研究的开展方式、所提供的支持和材料以及数据收集过程的简便性持积极态度。他们报告称与顾客之间几乎没有问题，并且大多数药剂师愿意再次参与。
所开发的方法成功地从顾客那里收集到了数据，并且为参与研究的药剂师所接受。该方法可适用于收集关于其他行为或医疗状况患病率的数据，并评估顾客对服务的看法。
