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Banh HL, Chow S, Li S, et al. Pharmacy students screening for pre-diabetes/diabetes with a validated questionnaire in community pharmacies during their experiential rotation in Alberta, Canada. SAGE Open Med. 2015;3:2050312115585040doi: 10.1177/2050312115585040.
Banh, H. L., Chow, S., Li, S., Letassy, N., Cox, C., & Cave, A. (2015). Pharmacy students screening for pre-diabetes/diabetes with a validated questionnaire in community pharmacies during their experiential rotation in Alberta, Canada. SAGE open medicine, 32050312115585040. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312115585040
Banh, Hoan Linh, et al. "Pharmacy students screening for pre-diabetes/diabetes with a validated questionnaire in community pharmacies during their experiential rotation in Alberta, Canada." SAGE open medicine vol. 3 (2015): 2050312115585040. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312115585040
Banh HL, Chow S, Li S, Letassy N, Cox C, Cave A. Pharmacy students screening for pre-diabetes/diabetes with a validated questionnaire in community pharmacies during their experiential rotation in Alberta, Canada. SAGE Open Med. 2015 May 06;3:2050312115585040. doi: 10.1177/2050312115585040. eCollection 2015. PMID: 26770784; PMCID: PMC4679240.
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SAGE Open Med. 2015 May 06;3:2050312115585040. doi: 10.1177/2050312115585040. eCollection 2015.

Pharmacy students screening for pre-diabetes/diabetes with a validated questionnaire in community pharmacies during their experiential rotation in Alberta, Canada.

SAGE open medicine

Hoan Linh Banh, Sheldon Chow, Shuai Li, Nancy Letassy, Cheryl Cox, Andrew Cave

Affiliations

  1. Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
  2. London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada.
  3. School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
  4. Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
  5. Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

PMID: 26770784 PMCID: PMC4679240 DOI: 10.1177/2050312115585040

Abstract

PURPOSE: Type 2 diabetes is a major condition impacting morbidity, mortality, and health care costs in Canada. Pharmacists are very accessible and are in an ideal position to promote public health education. The primary goal of this study was to incorporate public health promotion and education into a community pharmacy experiential education rotation for fourth year pharmacy students to screen for the risk of pre-diabetes/diabetes in adults. A secondary goal was to determine the frequency of common risk factors for pre-diabetes/diabetes in adults in the community setting.

METHOD: Fourth year pharmacy students were invited to recruit all adults 25 years or older attending community pharmacies to complete a pre-diabetes/diabetes risk assessment questionnaire. If the participants were at risk, the participants were provided education about risk reduction for developing pre-diabetes/diabetes.

RESULTS: A total of 340 participants completed a risk assessment questionnaire. Over 90% of people approached agreed to complete a risk assessment questionnaire. The common risk factors were overweight (154/45%), hypertension (102/30%), taking medications for hypertension (102/30%), and having symptoms of diabetes (111/33%). The ethnic minorities have 2.56 (confidence interval = 1.48-44.1) times greater odds of having a family history of diabetes compared to non-minority subjects.

CONCLUSION: Pharmacy students are able to screen community-based patients for pre-diabetes/diabetes risks. The most common risk factors presented were overweight, hypertension, and taking medications for hypertension.

Keywords: Diabetes risk assessment; community pharmacy; health promotion; pharmacy students

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