Clinical trial NCT02028793: Work Pressure for Pharmacist With Home Pharmaceutical Care
Official title: Factors Related to Work Pressure and Turnover Intention for Pharmacists With Home Pharmaceutical Care
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Pressure Factors
Work Load.
Intention of Leaving the Service
Keywords: Pharmaceutical Care, Taiwan, pharmacist, Workload, pressure
Lead sponsor: Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2014-01-07
Enrollment: 160
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: community pharmacists who attend the protocol (offered by National Health Insurance Administration,, Taiwan). the protocol is designed to provide home pharmaceutical care (PC) to the patients with heavy health expenditure. This group of community pharmacists needs to operate their pharmacy while offering PC with small amount of payment. This study investigates the work load, pressure, and intention of leaving the protocol.

Brief summary: National Health Insurance Administration, Taiwan has provided a protocol for community pharmacist to offer home pharmaceutical care for the patients with high health expenditures. Since community pharmacists need to visit patients for consultation and check their medications, it has been thought to have pressure for them in various areas. This study intends to investigate the factors related to the pressure and intention for leaving this protocol. The hypothesis are that community pharmacist who works longer, has economic pressure, and longer year of practice will have higher pressure and strong intention for leaving.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* community pharmacists who attend the protocol.

Exclusion Criteria:

* community pharmacists who attend any other home pharmaceutical care projects (any types).

Primary outcomes:
measure: intention to leave the service
timeFrame: up to four months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: work pressure
timeFrame: up to four months
measure: work load
timeFrame: up to four months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: All cities in Taiwan
country: Taiwan
facility: Community Pharmacies
Study officials:
affiliation: Taichung Veteran General Hospital, Taiwan
name: Wen-Shyong Liou, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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