| Title |
Rural Australian community pharmacists' views on complementary and alternative medicine: a pilot study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, October 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6882-11-103 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nicole J Bushett, Virginia A Dickson-Swift, Jon A Willis, Pene Wood |
| Abstract |
Complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) are being used increasingly across the world. In Australia, community pharmacists are a major supplier of these products but knowledge of the products and interactions with other medicines is poor. Information regarding the use of CAMs by metropolitan pharmacists has been documented by the National Prescribing Service (NPS) in Australia but the views of rural/regional community pharmacists have not been explored. The aim of this pilot study was to explore the knowledge, attitudes and information seeking of a cohort of rural community pharmacists towards CAMs and to compare the findings to the larger NPS study. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 9 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 60 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 10 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 15% |
| Lecturer > Senior Lecturer | 4 | 7% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 4 | 7% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 8 | 13% |
| Unknown | 22 | 36% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 15 | 25% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 13 | 21% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 5% |
| Philosophy | 2 | 3% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 2 | 3% |
| Unknown | 24 | 39% |
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