Rosenthal Meagen, Sutton Jane, Austin Zubin, Tsuyuki Ross T
Department of Pharmacy Administration (Rosenthal), University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi.
Can Pharm J (Ott). 2015 Jul;148(4):209-16. doi: 10.1177/1715163515586846.
Pharmacy practice research is one avenue through which new pharmacy services can be integrated into daily pharmacy practice. However, pharmacists' participation in this research has not been well characterized. Drawing from the literature on work performance and personality traits, 4 hypotheses were developed to gain insight into pharmacists' performance in a pharmacy practice research trial.
This study was an observational, cross-sectional survey of pharmacists participating in a research trial. All pharmacists were asked to complete the Big Five Inventory (BFI), a validated, reliable instrument of personality traits. These results were then compared with measures of pharmacists' performance in the trial.
Thirty pharmacists expressed interest in participating in the trial; 23 completed the BFI and 14 actively participated in the pharmacy practice research trial. No statistically significant differences were identified in the examination of the predetermined hypotheses. Exploratory analyses revealed significant relationships between the BFI trait of extroversion and pharmacists' participation in the study, obtaining prescribing authority for the study and the number of patients lost to follow-up.
In addition to identifying a number of personality traits that have been shared by other samples of pharmacists, this work suggests the possibility of an interaction between pharmacists' personality traits and their performance in a pharmacy practice research trial.
Future research should better characterize the relationship between pharmacists' personality traits and participation in pharmacy practice research trials to gain insight into the context of pharmacy practice and how pharmacists are integrating this research into their practices.
药学实践研究是将新的药学服务融入日常药学实践的一条途径。然而，药剂师参与此类研究的情况尚未得到充分描述。借鉴有关工作表现和人格特质的文献，提出了4个假设，以深入了解药剂师在一项药学实践研究试验中的表现。
本研究是一项对参与研究试验的药剂师进行的观察性横断面调查。所有药剂师都被要求完成大五人格量表（BFI），这是一种经过验证的、可靠的人格特质测量工具。然后将这些结果与药剂师在试验中的表现指标进行比较。
30名药剂师表示有兴趣参与试验；23名完成了BFI测试，14名积极参与了药学实践研究试验。在对预先设定的假设进行检验时，未发现统计学上的显著差异。探索性分析显示，外向性这一人格特质与药剂师参与研究、获得研究的处方权以及失访患者数量之间存在显著关系。
除了识别出其他药剂师样本所共有的一些人格特质外，这项研究还表明药剂师的人格特质与他们在药学实践研究试验中的表现之间可能存在相互作用。
未来的研究应更好地描述药剂师的人格特质与参与药学实践研究试验之间的关系，以深入了解药学实践的背景以及药剂师如何将这项研究融入他们的实践中。
