Perceived roles and barriers in caring for the people who are homeless: A survey of UK pharmacists

Vibhu Paudyal (Corresponding Author), Kathrine Lesley Gibson Smith, Katie MacLure, Katrina Forbes-McKay, Andrew Radley, Derek Stewart

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Background Community pharmacists can be an accessible source for advice and support for the people who are homeless, given their utilisation of a variety of currently available services such as dispensing of medicines, drugs and alcohol services. Objective To determine community pharmacists’ training, experiences and behavioural determinants in counselling and management of homeless population. Setting UK community pharmacies. Method A questionnaire based on literature and theoretical domains framework was mailed to randomly sampled community pharmacies in England and Scotland (n = 2000). Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Main outcome measures Pharmacists’ perspectives, pharmacists’ training, pharmacists’ experiences and behavioural determinants. Results A total of 321 responses (RR 16.1%) were received. Respondents indicated lack of knowledge, skills, intentions as well as contextual factors such as lack of guidelines impacted on their counselling and management of homeless patients. Less than a third (n = 101, 32.2%) indicated that they knew where to refer a homeless patient for social support. Broaching the subject of homelessness was outside their comfort zone (n = 139, 44.3%). Only four (1.2%) respondents could correctly answer all knowledge assessment questions. Conclusions Community pharmacist identified lack of education, training opportunities and guidelines in counselling and management of homeless patients. Targeting community pharmacists’ knowledge, skills and intention to provide care to the homeless patients may enable addressing health inequality through community pharmacy.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)215-227
Number of pages13
JournalInternational Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
Volume41
Issue number1
Early online date18 Jan 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2019

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Pharmacists
Broaching
Pharmacies
Counseling
Medicine
Education
Alcohols
Health
Statistics
Guidelines
Homeless Persons
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Scotland
Surveys and Questionnaires
Social Support
England
Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
Population

Keywords

  • Community pharmacist
  • Community pharmacy
  • Counselling
  • Homeless
  • Signposting
  • United Kingdom
  • Pharmacists/psychology
  • Attitude of Health Personnel
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Health Status Disparities
  • Homeless Persons/education
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Community Pharmacy Services/standards
  • Counseling/methods
  • United Kingdom/epidemiology
  • Professional Role/psychology
  • Adult
  • Female
  • Perception
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Aged
  • MORTALITY
  • INDIVIDUALS
  • HEALTH

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Pharmacology (medical)
  • Pharmacy
  • Toxicology
  • Pharmacology
  • Pharmaceutical Science

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Perceived roles and barriers in caring for the people who are homeless : A survey of UK pharmacists. / Paudyal, Vibhu (Corresponding Author); Gibson Smith, Kathrine Lesley; MacLure, Katie; Forbes-McKay, Katrina; Radley, Andrew ; Stewart, Derek.

In: International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, Vol. 41, No. 1, 02.2019, p. 215-227.

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Paudyal, V, Gibson Smith, KL, MacLure, K, Forbes-McKay, K, Radley, A & Stewart, D 2019, 'Perceived roles and barriers in caring for the people who are homeless: A survey of UK pharmacists', International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 215-227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11096-019-00789-4
Paudyal V, Gibson Smith KL, MacLure K, Forbes-McKay K, Radley A, Stewart D. Perceived roles and barriers in caring for the people who are homeless: A survey of UK pharmacists. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy. 2019 Feb;41(1):215-227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11096-019-00789-4
Paudyal, Vibhu ; Gibson Smith, Kathrine Lesley ; MacLure, Katie ; Forbes-McKay, Katrina ; Radley, Andrew ; Stewart, Derek. / Perceived roles and barriers in caring for the people who are homeless : A survey of UK pharmacists. In: International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy. 2019 ; Vol. 41, No. 1. pp. 215-227.
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