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Campus-community pharmacy partnership to foster awareness and use of MedlinePlus
Bisrat Hailemeskel1, Arjun P Dutta, Monika Daftary
1School of Pharmacy, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA.
Objective:
To determine the impact of a campus-community pharmacy partnership to foster awareness and use of National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases, including MedlinePlus, among minority populations.
Design:
Uncontrolled study with pretest and posttest.
Setting:
Two community pharmacies and Bethel World Ministry in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
Participants:
8 student pharmacists and pharmacy residents and 92 patients.
Intervention:
Training of patients by student pharmacists and pharmacy residents in the use of NLM databases during prescription-fill wait time.
Main Outcome Measures:
Pre- and post-survey responses and telephone followup designed to assess familiarity with NLM databases, including MedlinePlus.
Results:
Overall, the familiarity of the participants with MedlinePlus and NLM databases increased fivefold before versus after training. The 1-week follow-up confirmed this trend. However, no statistically significant differences in responses (pre-and posttest/follow-up) to the surveys were observed in regard to specific questions on daily and future use of the NLM databases available on the Internet.
Conclusion:
Awareness and use of MedlinePlus by study participants increased.
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