Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy最新文献

{"title":"Empowering healthcare professional students to address an emergent issue: Naloxone access","authors":"Alina Cernasev , Rachel Barenie , Emily Nagel , Shandra Forrest","doi":"10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.03.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.03.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48126,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy","volume":"21 11","pages":"Page e26"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144925771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The geriatric patient: A study on the analysis of potentially inappropriate prescriptions.","authors":"Samira Boumedian , Antonio José Braza Reyes , Carlos de Figueiredo Escribà , Cecilia F. Lastra , Eduardo L. Mariño , Maria Sureda Rosich , Pilar Modamio","doi":"10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.02.070","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.02.070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48126,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy","volume":"21 11","pages":"Page e23"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144926153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Attitudes of Patients with Solid Tumors Towards Deprescribing Non-Cancer Medicines and Proton Pump Inhibitors","authors":"Nuša Japelj , Andreja Eberl , Lara Tepeš , Lea Knez , Nejc Horvat","doi":"10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.02.034","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.02.034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48126,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy","volume":"21 11","pages":"Pages e9-e10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144926680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How reliable is one self-reported medication adherence item in stroke survivors? A secondary data analysis from the MAAESTRO study","authors":"Katharina Rekk , Alexandros A. Polymeris , Philippe A. Lyrer , Stefan T. Engelter , Samuel S. Allemann , Isabelle Arnet","doi":"10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.02.036","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.02.036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48126,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy","volume":"21 11","pages":"Page e10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144926712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Charting the path to better diabetes outcomes: Revealing psychosocial influences on medication adherence through the information-motivation-behavioral skills model among adults with type 2 diabetes.","authors":"Yu-Meng Yang, Hsun-Yu Chan, Yunn-Fang Ho, Hsiang-Wen Lin, Chi-Chuan Wang, Tzu Wang, Yen-Ming Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.08.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.08.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Psychosocial factors like beliefs, distress, and behavioral skills affect medication adherence. The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) model addresses these through integrated knowledge, motivation, and skills to support adherence.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study applied the IMB model to identify salient factors associated with medication adherence and glycemic control among adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D), aiming to clarify mechanisms underlying non-adherence.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional survey was conducted from June 2023 to May 2024 at five community pharmacies in Taiwan using convenience sampling. Eligible participants were adults diagnosed with T2D, currently prescribed at least one oral diabetes medication, and able to read Traditional Chinese. Data were collected via a structured questionnaire covering demographics, clinical characteristics, and four IMB-based constructs. Specifically, eHealth literacy represented the information component; medication-related beliefs (i.e., perceived concerns and necessity of medications) reflected the motivation construct; and self-efficacy captured behavioral skills. Medication adherence was assessed in two domains: medication-taking and medication refill behaviors. Path analysis was used to examine relationships among psychosocial variables, adherence behaviors, and glycemic control.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 273 participants completed the questionnaire. Higher self-reported medication-taking behavior was significantly associated with better glycemic control (β = 0.198, p < 0.001). This behavior was positively influenced by stronger eHealth literacy (β = 0.177, p = 0.002), fewer medication-related concerns (β = 0.307, p < 0.001), and greater perceived necessity of medications (β = 0.124, p = 0.027), with self-efficacy serving as a key mediator (β = 0.257, p < 0.001). Refill adherence was also linked to improved A1C levels (β = 0.120, p = 0.028), though no psychosocial predictors were identified for this domain.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The IMB model offers a useful framework for understanding adherence behaviors in T2D. Self-efficacy emerged as a central influence, mediating the effects of eHealth literacy and beliefs about medicines.</p>","PeriodicalId":48126,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development and characterization of a theory- and data-driven core journals list in pharmacy practice.","authors":"Samuel O Adeosun, Nickalus C Smith, Norvinyo A Abiti, Sydney A Borst, Jacob K Walters, Kyle J Burghardt","doi":"10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.08.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.08.011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To develop a core journals list based on United States pharmacy practice faculty publication records and Bradford's Law of Scattering; to evaluate the stability of the list and characterize the core journals.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Pharmacy practice faculty names were obtained from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. The 10-year (2014-2023) publication records (corpus) of faculty were obtained from Scopus.com. The core journals list of the corpus was established by using Verbal and Egghe's formulations of Bradford's Law. The stability of the list was evaluated by analyzing two 5-year, and five 2-year epochs of the corpus using a linear mixed-effects model to determine whether appearance in the core list depends on the epochs. The documents published in the core journals were classified with the Pharmacy Practice Research Domain Classifier tool which classifies documents into 4 domains (Clinical, Education, Social & Administrative, and Basic & Translational). The number of authors per document (NAPD) was also calculated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 3028 (86.4 % of 3503) faculty published 23063 documents in 2470 journals during the decade. Bradford's Law produced 13 core journals (0.53 % of journals; containing 32.6 % of documents). The appearance of journals in the core zone was independent of the 2- and 5-year epochs. The research domain profiles of the core journals showed Clinical as the predominant domain in 7 journals. Two journals with distinct research domain signatures had the highest impact factors, CiteScores, and NAPD.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We established a novel, data- and theory-driven core journals list in pharmacy practice that is stable over a decade. This evidence-based list would help faculty in selecting journals to publish in, thus mitigating scattering, while also defining and finetuning the boundaries of pharmacy practice as a scientific field over time. The core journals list would be a catalyst for achieving the Granada Statements goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":48126,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Association of longer-term versus shorter-term antihypertensives prescriptions and clinical outcomes in patients with hypertension: A population-based propensity score matching study.","authors":"Tao Huang, Lin Bai, Huangqianyu Li, Peng Shen, Hongbo Lin, Hao Li, Zhiyuan Wang, Yang Xu, Luwen Shi, Xiaodong Guan","doi":"10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.08.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.08.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Previous studies have shown that longer-term prescriptions could improve medication adherence of patients with chronic diseases. However, no evidence demonstrated the impact of a longer supply duration on patients' clinical outcomes. The objective is to estimate the association between longer-term prescriptions with patients' clinical outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A retrospective population-based propensity score-matched cohort study was conducted on the Chinese Electronic Health Records Research in Yinzhou database between January 2017 and June 2022. Prescriptions with the supply duration of antihypertensives >28 days were considered as longer-term prescriptions. The primary outcome was hospitalization for cardiovascular diseases. Secondary outcomes included medication adherence measured by medication possession ratio ≥80 % and visit frequency during the follow-up. Cox proportional hazard model and conditional logistic regression were used to estimate effects in the censored at treatment switch or discontinuation analyses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>25,625 adult hypertension patient pairs were included in the propensity score matched cohort. The median follow-up time was 180 days. Compared with patients receiving shorter-term prescriptions, lower hospitalization rates for cardiovascular diseases were observed in patients with longer-term prescriptions (hazard ratio: 0.88, 95 %CI: 0.80-0.98). The proportion of adherent patients in the longer-term group was higher than that in the shorter-term group (odds ratio: 1.91, 95 % CI: 1.84-1.98). The longer-term group also had fewer patients with ≥1 visit per month during the follow-up (odds ratio: 0.19, 95 %CI: 0.18-0.20). Subgroup and sensitive analysis showed consistent results.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Longer-term prescriptions can improve patients' clinical outcomes and decrease their visit frequency. Promoting longer-term prescriptions can help mitigate the challenge of limited health resources and reduce disease burden.</p>","PeriodicalId":48126,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interventions to optimize medication management in patients with language and health literacy barriers: A scoping review.","authors":"Meera Bhagat, Cindy Puga, Michelle S Keller","doi":"10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.08.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.08.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Language barriers can pose significant challenges to effective communication about medications. When language barriers are present, patients may struggle to understand medication instructions and potential side effects, which can lead to medication errors, poor health outcomes, and increased healthcare costs.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>We aimed to identify patient-facing interventions beyond the use of medical interpreters aimed at helping patients with language barriers manage their medications.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We searched PubMed using the PICO (population, intervention, control, outcome) framework from the beginning of the database to January 2023. We included all study designs with an intervention. Two reviewers independently performed citation screening. We synthesized the data using a narrative approach and developed a conceptual model which can be used to design interventions to improve medication management among patients with language barriers, low health literacy, and/or low literacy.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>19 studies met our eligibility criteria. Interventions included utilization of community health workers to improve medication adherence, the use of pictograms and simplified medication instructions, and mobile apps with medication information. Interventions were delivered by pharmacists, health coaches, and community health workers. Studies examined a variety of outcomes, from medication adherence, patient satisfaction, knowledge about medications, and clinical outcomes, such as hemoglobin A1c and blood pressure measures.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The studies reviewed reported mixed effectiveness for improving medication management. Most studies were exploratory in nature; some interventions demonstrated effectiveness in a clinical setting. Generally, the reviewed studies suggest a need to expand and test interventions for complex medical instructions and develop studies with longer follow-up periods.</p>","PeriodicalId":48126,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing medicine information handover at hospital discharge: evaluation of a multifaceted intervention pilot trial.","authors":"H Laetitia Hattingh, Hayley Hirsch, Matt Percival, Kate Johnston, Georgia Tobiano, Salim Memon, Rohan Jayasinghe, Carl de Wet, Mark A Morgan, Noela Baglot, Brigid M Gillespie","doi":"10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.08.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.08.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Hospital pharmacists and doctors should collaborate to prepare discharge medicine handover information and pharmacists and nurses in providing discharge medicine counselling. This pilot trial evaluated a multifaceted intervention that included training hospital doctors to record medicine changes, patient risk stratification, and collaborative doctor and pharmacist discharge medicine reconciliation to improve information handover.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A pilot study was undertaken at two hospitals in Queensland, Australia. Evaluation incorporated an audit of intervention patient discharge medicine information handover with a control cohort and a time-and-motion observation. Eligible general medicine patients ≥65 years were recruited over nine weeks; a randomisation process was followed to select the control group. We aimed to incorporate 50 intervention patient discharges in the audit.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Most of the 52 intervention and 50 control patients were male (34/52, 65.5 %; 32/50, 64.0 %); average age was 78.6 (SD = 9.0) and 77.7 (SD = 9.3) years. Medicine reconciliation was completed at the time of discharge for 50/52 (96.2 %) of intervention and 34/50 (68.0 %) of control patients; more electronic discharge summaries of intervention patients included all medicines compared to control patients; pharmacists were involved in all intervention discharges compared to 90.0 % (45/50) of control discharges. Discharge summaries of intervention patients were sent to general practitioners within 4.3 days and 9.2 days for control patients. Time-and-motion observations showed that pharmacist discharge medicine information handover time was reduced by 32 min between intervention and control cohorts.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our study showed that the multifaceted intervention reduced the time required to complete discharge medicine handover information, facilitated patient discharge, and reduced the time-period of sending discharge summaries to general practitioners.</p>","PeriodicalId":48126,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pharmacist interventions in schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Juliana Pimenta Netto, Amanda Veiga Barbosa, Brígida Dias Fernandes, Inajara Rotta, Patricia Melo Aguiar","doi":"10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.08.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.08.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder (BAD) are chronic mental disorders that cause severe disability and represent a significant burden of disease. Pharmacists play a critical role in enhancing patient care and improving health outcomes. However, no systematic review with meta-analysis on pharmacist interventions in these populations has been published.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate the efficacy of pharmacist interventions in improving health outcomes for patients with schizophrenia or BAD.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A literature search was conducted in PubMed, Cochrane Central, Embase, and Google Scholar until March 2024. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) assessing pharmacist interventions on any health outcome (except pharmacoeconomic) in patients with schizophrenia or BAD were included. Two independent investigators conducted the study selection, data extraction, and risk of bias assessment (Rob 2 tool). Meta-analyses were conducted using random-effect models in the RStudio software.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Seven RCTs, published between 2017 and 2024 in middle-income countries, were included. Four studies focused on schizophrenia, three on BAD. The majority (40-60 %) of participants were female, aged 35-40. Six RCTs implemented health education as a pharmacist intervention, with medication adherence and quality of life being the primary outcomes assessed. Meta-analyses were conducted for quality of life outcomes in schizophrenia and BAD, and demonstrated that pharmacist interventions significantly improved overall scores and all domains of the WHOQOL-BREF instrument (physical, psychological, social relationships, and environmental), with a low certainty of evidence. In addition, clinical and process outcomes showed a significant improvement after the pharmacist intervention. However, all outcomes were classified with a high risk of bias according to the RoB 2 tool, mainly due to issues with outcome measurement.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Pharmacist interventions may significantly impact the health outcomes of patients with schizophrenia or BAD, but more high-quality RCTs are needed to solidify these findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48126,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}