Abstract
Objectives: This study identified barriers to Japanese community pharmacists’ active conduct or participation in practice research. Methods: Community pharmacists (n = 478) who gave presentations at three major pharmacy-related conferences in 2012 and 2013 were questioned about their difficulties of giving presentations, support for better presentations, and barriers to conducting pharmacy practice research in their practical setting. A questionnaire was mailed to and returned by the pharmacists directly. Results: We obtained 230 responses (47.9%). Presentation difficulties included pharmacists’ time constraints and lack of experience organizing the report’s results or discussion. Many thought statistical analysis support was necessary. The barriers were in sufficient time, community pharmacies’ lack of research supervisors, and other community pharmacists’ lack of understanding practice research’s importance. These were comparable to pharmacists’ barriers in other countries, except for money and funds. Conclusions: Japanese community pharmacists should clarify that practice research in their professional roles improves patients’ outcomes. Barriers were similar to pharmacists in other countries. Publication of pharmacists’ practice research results is important to expand their roles. Collaboration between faculties and pharmacists is a challenge for practice research development in the Japanese community setting.
Highlights
In the joint International Pharmaceutical Federation/World Health Organization guidelines on good pharmacy practice, there are four main roles where society and the individuals served expect pharmacists’ involvement or supervision
Pharmacy practice research is a type of health service research that focuses on pharmacist care and its effect on patient outcomes [2]
It has been reported that there are some barriers for pharmacists to engage in practice research [6]-[8]
Summary
In the joint International Pharmaceutical Federation/World Health Organization guidelines on good pharmacy practice, there are four main roles where society and the individuals served expect pharmacists’ involvement or supervision. They should: 1) Prepare, obtain, store, secure, distribute, administer, dispense, and dispose of medical products; 2) Provide effective medication therapy management; 3) Maintain and improve professional performance; 4) Contribute to improve effectiveness of the healthcare system and public health [1]. Community pharmacists who are health professionals close to community people should expand their patient-focused profession To do so, they should have more confidence in the fact that the pharmacists’ pharmacy practice research improves patients’ outcomes. We tried to identify Japanese community pharmacists’ barriers to conducting research
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