Impact of Three Continuing Education Meetings for Community Pharmacists on Weight Management

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Continuing Pharmacy Education; Obesity
• Interventions: Other: Didactic Lecture; Other: Interactive Lecture; Other: Lecture plus Small Group Education

• Registration Number: NCT01339364
• Lead Sponsor: Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Brief Summary

This study is a three-arm randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of 1-day continuing educational meetings for community pharmacists with three distinct educational methods: 1) Didactic lecture 2) Didactic lecture plus case discussion in a large group 3) Didactic lecture plus small group education with simulated patient

Knowledge and attitude of the participants would be measured as the study outcome in three periods: pre-education, post-education and 1 month after the meetings.

Detailed Description

The study is designed as an Instructor blinded-Randomized Controlled Trial.

An educational need assessment is undergone prior to educational content preparation by interviewing 5 community pharmacists. After educational content preparation by instructors, the outcome assessment tool (knowledge, attitude questionnaire) would be designed by a distinct investigator. Closed and Open-ended questions are included to investigate different levels of Bloom's taxonomy.

The questionnaire would be validated by specialists other than the instructors and it will piloted to investigate the reliability( Cronbach's Alfa \> 0.7).

Community pharmacists of Tehran,Capital city of Iran, would be invited to participate in the study. The participants would be randomly assigned to 3 groups by random number table. Each group receives the same education content with a different method:

1. Didactic lecture

2. Didactic lecture plus case discussion in a large group

3. Didactic lecture plus small group education with simulated patient(SP). Interviewing with SP is conducted by small group facilitators with Brain Storming Technic.

Each participant receives a compact disk which includes the educational material and he/she would be able to contact the instructors by phone or e-mail during the follow-up period. (Reinforcement Phase)

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-01
• Study First Submitted: 2011-04-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-04-19
• Study First Posted: 2011-04-20
• Primary Completion: 2011-05
• Study Completion: 2011-06
• Status Verified: 2011-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2011-07-25
• Last Update Posted: 2011-07-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 180

Inclusion Criteria

• Community Pharmacist

Exclusion Criteria

• Less than four hours of daily work in community pharmacy

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Didactic Lecture	Didactic Lecture	-
Lecture plus Case Disscussion	Interactive Lecture	-
Lecture plus Small Group Education	Lecture plus Small Group Education	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Knowledge Grade Points and Attitudes(Phase 1)	One day	Obtained through a validated knowledge and attitude questionnaire.
Knowledge Grade Points and Attitudes(Phase 2)	One month(average of 4 weeks after the day of training)	Obtained through a validated knowledge and attitude questionnaire.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Satisfaction of Participants	One day	Obtained by a Satisfaction Evaluation Questionnaire.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Faculty of Pharmacy-Tehran University of Medical Sciences; 🇮🇷 Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of