BACKGROUND: @entity65 ( @entity65 ) prevention programs by community pharmacists appears effective and enhances health service access. However, their capacity to implement complex behavioural change processes during @entity1 counselling remains largely unexplored. This study aims to determine intervention fidelity by pharmacists for behavioural components of a complex educational intervention for @entity65 prevention. After receiving training to improve lifestyle and medicines adherence, pharmacists recruited 70 @entity1 aged 50-74 years without established @entity65 , and taking antihypertensive or lipid lowering therapy. @entity1 received five counselling sessions, each at monthly intervals. Researchers assessed biomedical and behavioural risk factors at baseline and six months. Pharmacists documented key outcomes from counselling after each session. Most @entity1 (86%) reported suboptimal cardiovascular diets, 41% reported suboptimal medicines adherence, and 39% were physically inactive. Of those advised to complete the intervention, 85% attended all five sessions. Pharmacists achieved @entity1 agreement with most recommended goals for behaviour change, and overwhelmingly translated goals into practical behavioural strategies. Barriers to changing behaviours were regularly documented, and pharmacists reported most behavioural strategies as having had some success. Meaningful improvements to health behaviours were observed post-intervention. Findings support further exploration of pharmacists' potential roles for delivering interventions with complex behaviour change requirements.

Intervention fidelity for a complex behaviour change intervention in community pharmacy addressing XXXX risk.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patients', 'patients', 'patient'] @entity65 :: ('MESH:D002318', 'Disease') :: ['CVD', 'Delivery of cardiovascular disease']
@entity65 :: (MESH:D002318,Disease) :: ['cardiovascular disease']
