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Equipping community pharmacy workers as agents for health behaviour change: developing and testing a theory-based smoking cessation intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop a complex intervention for community pharmacy staff to promote uptake of smoking cessation services and to increase quit rates.

Design

Following the Medical Research Council framework, we used a mixed-methods approach to develop, pilot and then refine the intervention.

Methods

Phase I: We used information from qualitative studies in pharmacies, systematic literature reviews and the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation-Behaviour framework to inform design of the initial version of the intervention. Phase II: We then tested the acceptability of this intervention with smoking cessation advisers and assessed fidelity using actors who visited pharmacies posing as smokers, in a pilot study. Phase III: We reviewed the content and associated theory underpinning our intervention, taking account of the results of the earlier studies and a realist analysis of published literature. We then confirmed a logic model describing the intended operation of the intervention and used this model to refine the intervention and associated materials.

Setting

Eight community pharmacies in three inner east London boroughs.

Participants

12 Stop Smoking Advisers.

Intervention

Two, 150 min, skills-based training sessions focused on communication and behaviour change skills with between session practice.

Results

The pilot study confirmed acceptability of the intervention and showed preliminary evidence of benefit; however, organisational barriers tended to limit effective operation. The pilot data and realist review pointed to additional use of Diffusion of Innovations Theory to seat the intervention in the wider organisational context.

Conclusions

We have developed and refined an intervention to promote smoking cessation services in community pharmacies, which we now plan to evaluate in a randomised controlled trial.

Trial registration number

UKCRN ID 18446, Pilot.

SUBMITTER: Steed L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5724215 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Equipping community pharmacy workers as agents for health behaviour change: developing and testing a theory-based smoking cessation intervention.

Steed Liz L Sohanpal Ratna R James Wai-Yee WY Rivas Carol C Jumbe Sandra S Chater Angel A Todd Adam A Edwards Elizabeth E Macneil Virginia V Macfarlane Fraser F Greenhalgh Trisha T Griffiths Chris C Eldridge Sandra S Taylor Stephanie S Walton Robert R

BMJ open 20170811 8

<h4>Objective</h4>To develop a complex intervention for community pharmacy staff to promote uptake of smoking cessation services and to increase quit rates.<h4>Design</h4>Following the Medical Research Council framework, we used a mixed-methods approach to develop, pilot and then refine the intervention.<h4>Methods</h4><i>Phase I</i>: We used information from qualitative studies in pharmacies, systematic literature reviews and the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation-Behaviour framework to inform ...[more]

PMID: 28801403

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Equipping community pharmacy workers as agents for health behaviour change: developing and testing a theory-based smoking cessation intervention.

Objective

Design

Methods

Setting

Participants

Intervention

Results

Conclusions

Trial registration number

Publications

Equipping community pharmacy workers as agents for health behaviour change: developing and testing a theory-based smoking cessation intervention.

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