Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Benin, Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice, PMB 1154, Benin City, Nigeria; Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Benin, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, PMB 1154, Benin City, Nigeria
Oparah, A.C., Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Benin, Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice, PMB 1154, Benin City, Nigeria; Enato, E.F.O., Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Benin, Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice, PMB 1154, Benin City, Nigeria; Eferakeya, A.E., Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Benin, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, PMB 1154, Benin City, Nigeria
Objective: To describe and evaluate an educational intervention that is designed to enable pharmacists in a Nigerian teaching hospital to provide pharmaceutical care (PC) and to assess the impact of the intervention on an existing behavioural PC scale. Special attention was paid to develop a documentation format. Method: A pharmaceutical educational intervention was undertaken. The impact of the intervention on the pharmacists' potential to deliver PC was quantitatively evaluated using a standard behavioural PC scale. Results: There were significant differences between self-reported knowledge (t = 3.212; p = 0.003), attitudes (t = 2.868; p = 0.008) and self-efficacy (t = 2.537; p = 0.016) (pre-intervention and post-intervention). Conclusion: The educational intervention enhanced the pharmacists' potential to deliver PC and also generated two systems of documenting PC activities.
adult; article; attention; behavior; controlled study; documentation; education program; female; health care delivery; human; male; Nigeria; pharmaceutical care; pharmacist attitude; priority journal; professional knowledge; professional standard; quantitative analysis; rating scale; self concept; self report; statistical significance; teaching hospital