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Assessment of an intensive education program for pharmacists on treatment of tobacco use disorder using an objective structured clinical examination: a randomized controlled trial

Background: Tobacco use is one of the major public health threats globally. Community pharmacists are uniquely positioned to offer tobacco cessation services owing to their easy accessibility by the public. To prepare Qatar community pharmacists to develop the competencies and skills required to off...

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Main Authors: El Hajj, Maguy Saffouh, Awaisu, Ahmed, Nik Mohamed, Mohamad Haniki, Ahmed Saleh, Rana, Mohammed Alhamad, Noora, Kheir, Nadir, Mahfoud, Ziyad R.
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Published: BioMed Central Ltd 2022
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L Education (General)
RS Pharmacy and materia medica
RS403 Materia Medica-Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/97733/7/97733_Assessment%20of%20an%20intensive%20education%20program.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.977332022-04-28T01:23:32Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/97733/ Assessment of an intensive education program for pharmacists on treatment of tobacco use disorder using an objective structured clinical examination: a randomized controlled trial El Hajj, Maguy Saffouh Awaisu, Ahmed Nik Mohamed, Mohamad Haniki Ahmed Saleh, Rana Mohammed Alhamad, Noora Kheir, Nadir Mahfoud, Ziyad R. L Education (General) RS Pharmacy and materia medica RS403 Materia Medica-Pharmaceutical Chemistry Background: Tobacco use is one of the major public health threats globally. Community pharmacists are uniquely positioned to offer tobacco cessation services owing to their easy accessibility by the public. To prepare Qatar community pharmacists to develop the competencies and skills required to offer smoking cessation services, an intensive tobacco control education program was designed and implemented. The study aimed to assess the impact of the tobacco education program on the pharmacists’ skills and competence. Methods: A random sample of community pharmacists in Qatar was chosen for participation in the program. Consenting participants were randomly assigned to either intervention or control groups. The intervention group received an intensive education program on treatment of tobacco-use disorder, while a short didactic session on a non-tobacco-related topic was delivered to the control group. The pharmacists’ tobacco cessation skills and competencies were assessed using an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). Results: A total of 54 and 32 community pharmacists in the intervention group and the control group, respectively, completed the OSCE. The intensive tobacco education group achieved significantly higher total scores than the control group in all the OSCE cases. Specifically, the mean total scores for the intervention group were 15.2, 15.3, 14.2, 14.6, 16.3, and 15.2 compared to 8.8, 6.2, 7.7, 9.2, 8.3, and 11.3 for the control group (p < 0.001) for cases one to six respectively. Conclusion: The study demonstrated that an intensive tobacco cessation education program can improve pharmacists’ tobacco cessation skills and increase their tobacco cessation counseling abilities. BioMed Central Ltd 2022 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/97733/7/97733_Assessment%20of%20an%20intensive%20education%20program.pdf El Hajj, Maguy Saffouh and Awaisu, Ahmed and Nik Mohamed, Mohamad Haniki and Ahmed Saleh, Rana and Mohammed Alhamad, Noora and Kheir, Nadir and Mahfoud, Ziyad R. (2022) Assessment of an intensive education program for pharmacists on treatment of tobacco use disorder using an objective structured clinical examination: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Medical Education, 22 (1). pp. 1-12. ISSN 1472-6920 (In Press) https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-022-03331-9 10.1186/s12909-022-03331-9
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topic L Education (General)
RS Pharmacy and materia medica
RS403 Materia Medica-Pharmaceutical Chemistry
spellingShingle L Education (General)
RS Pharmacy and materia medica
RS403 Materia Medica-Pharmaceutical Chemistry
El Hajj, Maguy Saffouh
Awaisu, Ahmed
Nik Mohamed, Mohamad Haniki
Ahmed Saleh, Rana
Mohammed Alhamad, Noora
Kheir, Nadir
Mahfoud, Ziyad R.
Assessment of an intensive education program for pharmacists on treatment of tobacco use disorder using an objective structured clinical examination: a randomized controlled trial
description Background: Tobacco use is one of the major public health threats globally. Community pharmacists are uniquely positioned to offer tobacco cessation services owing to their easy accessibility by the public. To prepare Qatar community pharmacists to develop the competencies and skills required to offer smoking cessation services, an intensive tobacco control education program was designed and implemented. The study aimed to assess the impact of the tobacco education program on the pharmacists’ skills and competence. Methods: A random sample of community pharmacists in Qatar was chosen for participation in the program. Consenting participants were randomly assigned to either intervention or control groups. The intervention group received an intensive education program on treatment of tobacco-use disorder, while a short didactic session on a non-tobacco-related topic was delivered to the control group. The pharmacists’ tobacco cessation skills and competencies were assessed using an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). Results: A total of 54 and 32 community pharmacists in the intervention group and the control group, respectively, completed the OSCE. The intensive tobacco education group achieved significantly higher total scores than the control group in all the OSCE cases. Specifically, the mean total scores for the intervention group were 15.2, 15.3, 14.2, 14.6, 16.3, and 15.2 compared to 8.8, 6.2, 7.7, 9.2, 8.3, and 11.3 for the control group (p < 0.001) for cases one to six respectively. Conclusion: The study demonstrated that an intensive tobacco cessation education program can improve pharmacists’ tobacco cessation skills and increase their tobacco cessation counseling abilities.
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author El Hajj, Maguy Saffouh
Awaisu, Ahmed
Nik Mohamed, Mohamad Haniki
Ahmed Saleh, Rana
Mohammed Alhamad, Noora
Kheir, Nadir
Mahfoud, Ziyad R.
author_facet El Hajj, Maguy Saffouh
Awaisu, Ahmed
Nik Mohamed, Mohamad Haniki
Ahmed Saleh, Rana
Mohammed Alhamad, Noora
Kheir, Nadir
Mahfoud, Ziyad R.
author_sort El Hajj, Maguy Saffouh
title Assessment of an intensive education program for pharmacists on treatment of tobacco use disorder using an objective structured clinical examination: a randomized controlled trial
title_short Assessment of an intensive education program for pharmacists on treatment of tobacco use disorder using an objective structured clinical examination: a randomized controlled trial
title_full Assessment of an intensive education program for pharmacists on treatment of tobacco use disorder using an objective structured clinical examination: a randomized controlled trial
title_fullStr Assessment of an intensive education program for pharmacists on treatment of tobacco use disorder using an objective structured clinical examination: a randomized controlled trial
title_full_unstemmed Assessment of an intensive education program for pharmacists on treatment of tobacco use disorder using an objective structured clinical examination: a randomized controlled trial
title_sort assessment of an intensive education program for pharmacists on treatment of tobacco use disorder using an objective structured clinical examination: a randomized controlled trial
publisher BioMed Central Ltd
publishDate 2022
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/97733/7/97733_Assessment%20of%20an%20intensive%20education%20program.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/97733/
https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-022-03331-9
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