Promoting skin cancer prevention counseling by pharmacists

J.A. Mayer, L. Eckhardt, B.M. Stepanski, J.F. Sallis, J.P. Elder, D.J. Slymen, L. Creech, G. Graf, R.C. Palmer, C. Rosenberg and S.T. Souvignier

American Journal of Public Health, 1998, vol. 88, issue 7, 1096-1099

Abstract: Objectives. This study evaluated the effects of an intervention on rates of skin cancer prevention counseling by pharmacists. Methods. Fifty-four pharmacies were randomly assigned to intervention or control conditions. Intervention consisted of training, feedback, and prompts. Counseling rates before and after the intervention were obtained from study confederates. Results. At pretest, the proportions of control and intervention sites providing counseling at last once were 7.4% and 0%, respectively (NS). At posttest, these proportions were 3.7% and 66.7%, respectively (P

Date: 1998
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