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ENABLE: Medication brand changes in hormone therapy for breast cancer

Not Applicable
Conditions
Hormone therapy for breast cancer
Cancer
Registration Number
ISRCTN15089342
Lead Sponsor
ondon Metropolitan University
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Ongoing
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
45
Inclusion Criteria

WP1 - 1.c Qualitative interviews with pharmacists:
1.Pharmacists who are owner or manager of a community pharmacy, chain and independent;
2.pharmacists with a representative role in professional pharmaceutical bodies, e.g. Local Pharmaceutical Committee, Community Pharmacy England, Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

WP2 - 2b. Qualitative interviews with pharmacists:
1.A pharmacist or pharmacist technician, permanent or locum (and)
2.Working in community pharmacies located in London (and)
3.Providing hormone therapy medication to clients

WP3 – Testing and optimisation studies
Pharmacists:
1.Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians; from the London boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington
2.Providing Hormone Therapy medication to clients
3.Agree to participate in online training
4.Agree to recruit 4 patients from their pharmacy
5.Agree to deliver a medication consultation with recruited participants and audio record 1 consultation (with patient consent), and provide feedback notes of the consultation.
6.Agree to provide feedback in a study follow-up interview.
7.Is willing to provide written (signed and dated) informed consent.

Patients:
1.Women 18+ with early BC (stage 1-3);
2.Talking oral HT medication (tamoxifen, anastrozole, or letrozole) and had/have concerns about changing HT brands;
3.Not taking HT medication as neo-adjuvant or secondary metastatic BC;
4.Is willing and able to record notes on side effects and medication taken (diary) and attend a medication consultation with the CP;
5.Is willing and able to participate in a study follow-up interview (phone or video conference);
6.Is willing to provide a copy of the diary;
7.Is willing to be audio recorded during the pharmacy consultation;
8.Is willing to provide written (signed and dated) informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

WP1 - 1.c Qualitative interviews with pharmacists:
1.locum, technician, assistants, pharmacist not owner or manager
2.Pharmacists without a representative role in professional pharmaceutical bodies

WP2 - 2b. Qualitative interviews with pharmacists:
1.Accredited Checking Technician, assistants

WP3 – Testing and optimisation studies
Pharmacists:
1.Locum, Accredited Checking Technician, pharmacy assistants.

Patients:
1.Male
2.Currently or recently (last 6 months) involved in another research study where medication adherence is a primary outcome;
3.Have had in the last 6 months a medication review about changing brands of HT drugs.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Qualitative interviews to optimise the usability, practicality and acceptability of the intervention for community pharmacists and breast cancer patients. Using behavioural analysis constructs from the Theoretical Domains Framework and the Person-Based Approach for intervention development conducted 2 or 3 weeks after the testing of the intervention in WP3
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
There are no secondary outcome measures
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