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D M Scott

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Impact of OBRA '90 on pharmacists' patient counseling practices.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of OBRA '90 regulations on the counseling practices of community pharmacists in Nebraska. METHODS: A telephone survey was conducted of 80 randomly selected community pharmacies throughout Nebraska. A modified written survey was mailed to the 34 telephone nonrespondents and to another 86 randomly selected community pharmacists. A composite response rate (combining both survey methods) of 67.5% (112 of 166) was obtained, and responses were sorted into an independent community pharmacy group (n = 80) and a chain pharmacy group (n = 32). RESULTS: Only 44.6% of respondents reported that time devoted to patient counseling had increased as a result of OBRA '90. Chain pharmacists generally devoted more time to counseling after OBRA '90 became effective than did independent community pharmacists. CONCLUSION: While more than three out of four pharmacists felt adequately prepared for mandated patient counseling, fewer than half reported that time devoted to counseling had increased. Although the profession is moving toward the standard of pharmaceutical care, many pharmacists are not yet counseling as the law requires.

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Peer-Led Alcohol Education program: a pharmacy student-led program for seventh-graders.

OBJECTIVE: To delay or discourage the use of alcohol by seventh-grade students through peer-led education. Peer-Led Alcohol Education (PLAE) program objectives were to: (1) educate students about alcohol use and (2) assess the differences between pharmacy student presenters and high school student (peer) presenters. SETTING: Middle schools in rural Nebraska. DESIGN: PLAE focuses on normative beliefs, personal values, and pledging. Pharmacy students and high school students were trained to deliver alcohol education presentations to seventh-grade students. Evaluation results were compared among groups of seventh-grade students who received PLAE presentations from peer presenters and from pharmacy student presenters. RESULTS: PLAE presentations were made to 342 seventh-grade students at 11 schools. Evaluation results suggest that pharmacy students projected more confidence in their presentations, used more creative prop selections, and were more effective communicators. High-school presenters had a greater ability to "relate" to the seventh-graders and thus were deemed more on-target with the information. CONCLUSION: Evaluation findings suggest that rural seventh-grade students in Nebraska perceived that the PLAE program provides useful information to aid them in their decisions regarding alcohol use.

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