Perspectives of People Living With Type 2 Diabetes About Physical Activity Promotion: Can Community Pharmacies be Part of the Solution?

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI:10.1111/jep.70105

Ruben Viegas, Izabela Moura, Afonso Cavaco, Filipa Duarte Ramos, Romeu Mendes, Filipa Alves da Costa

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Abstract

Rationale

People living with type 2 diabetes (T2D) benefit from regular physical activity (PA) to reduce cardiovascular risk and better manage comorbidities. Pharmacists can provide support to increase physical activity by leveraging the regular interactions on their daily community pharmacy practice.

Aims and Objectives

This study aimed to explore the perspectives of people living T2D about their engagement in PA using pharmacies as the subject of interest to collect this information.

Methods

This study followed a focus group technique using a semi-structured guide. People living with T2D were recruited in community pharmacies resorting to typical case sampling. Five in person focus group interviews with 23 patients living with T2D were conducted by the research team. Interviews were recorded following consent, transcribed verbatim, coded independently by two researchers and analysed using the socio-ecologic model.

Results

A total of 23 people living with T2D were interviewed. Aspects determining PA engagement ranged from individual aspects such as physical limitations; interpersonal aspects such as having a reference pharmacist; organisational aspects such as activities done through the pharmacy; community aspects such as the cost of exercise activities and policy aspects such as information registry.

Conclusions

This study suggests that community pharmacies are currently not considered by people living with diabetes as a source for behaviour change linked to PA but explores possible ways on how this could become a reality in the future.

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2型糖尿病患者关于促进体育活动的观点：社区药房可以成为解决方案的一部分吗？

2型糖尿病（T2D）患者受益于规律的身体活动（PA），以降低心血管风险并更好地管理合并症。药剂师可以通过利用日常社区药房实践中的定期互动来提供支持，以增加身体活动。目的和目的本研究旨在探讨t2dm患者对其参与药物治疗的看法，以药房为研究对象来收集这些信息。方法本研究采用半结构化指南的焦点小组技术。采用典型病例抽样的方法在社区药房招募t2dm患者。研究小组对23例t2dm患者进行了5次面对面焦点小组访谈。访谈在同意后被记录下来，逐字记录，由两名研究人员独立编码，并使用社会生态模型进行分析。结果共采访了23例t2dm患者。决定私人助理工作的因素包括个人因素，如身体限制；人际关系方面，如有参考药剂师；组织方面，如通过药房开展的活动；社区方面如运动活动的成本和政策方面如信息登记。本研究表明，社区药房目前并未被糖尿病患者视为与PA相关的行为改变的来源，但探索了未来如何成为现实的可能方法。

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Journal of evaluation in clinical practice 医学-卫生保健

CiteScore

4.80

自引率

4.20%

发文量

143

审稿时长

3-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice aims to promote the evaluation and development of clinical practice across medicine, nursing and the allied health professions. All aspects of health services research and public health policy analysis and debate are of interest to the Journal whether studied from a population-based or individual patient-centred perspective. Of particular interest to the Journal are submissions on all aspects of clinical effectiveness and efficiency including evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, clinical decision making, clinical services organisation, implementation and delivery, health economic evaluation, health process and outcome measurement and new or improved methods (conceptual and statistical) for systematic inquiry into clinical practice. Papers may take a classical quantitative or qualitative approach to investigation (or may utilise both techniques) or may take the form of learned essays, structured/systematic reviews and critiques.