Clinical trial NCT01339364: Impact of Three Continuing Education Meetings for Community Pharmacists on Weight Management
Official title: Evaluation of Three 1-day Educational Intervention to Promote Knowledge and Attitude of Community Pharmacists About Evidence-based Weight Management
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Continuing Pharmacy Education
Obesity
Lead sponsor: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2011-04-20
Enrollment: 180
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 25
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

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)

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Community Pharmacist

Exclusion Criteria:

* Less than four hours of daily work in community pharmacy

Primary outcomes:
measure: Knowledge Grade Points and Attitudes(Phase 1)
timeFrame: One day
measure: Knowledge Grade Points and Attitudes(Phase 2)
timeFrame: One month(average of 4 weeks after the day of training)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Satisfaction of Participants
timeFrame: One day
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Tehran
country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
facility: Faculty of Pharmacy-Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Study officials:
affiliation: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
name: Kheirollah Gholami, M.Sc, PharmD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
name: Arash Rashidian, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
name: Mohammadreza Javadi, PharmD, BCPS
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
name: Amir Sarayani, PharmD, MPH
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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