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. 2024 Nov 30:15:119-133.
doi: 10.2147/OAJC.S487417. eCollection 2024.

Patient-Centred Counselling Tools for Dispensing Contraceptives in Community Pharmacy Settings: A Systematic Review

Parimala Vijai Indrian  1 , Wei Wen Chong  1 , Anizah Ali  2 , Adliah Mhd Ali  1
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Patient-Centred Counselling Tools for Dispensing Contraceptives in Community Pharmacy Settings: A Systematic Review

Parimala Vijai Indrian et al. Open Access J Contracept. .

Abstract

Background: The patient-centred counselling tools are a comprehensive resource to assist community pharmacists in providing effective treatment choices and assisting with decision-making.

Aim: To identify and select suitable tools community pharmacists use with targeted patient-centred outcomes for dispensing contraceptives.

Methods: Five electronic databases, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar as additional sources for published and unpublished studies, were searched to identify literature for contraceptive tools or strategies for pharmacists to decide on contraceptive choice and dispensing by pharmacist. Studies involving pharmacists or tools suitable for pharmacists from any country, published since 1990 were considered.

Results: A total of 21 publications met the inclusion criteria. Robvis' tool was used for visualizing the risk of bias for each result. There were three studies that used the tools specifically by community pharmacists and others focused on general family planning users and pharmacists. The suitability of patient-centred interventions in community pharmacy settings was further evaluated.

Conclusion: The evidence for special tools for pharmacists for dispensing contraceptives in community settings is limited and further research is needed to develop and evaluate novel interventions for pharmacists in community settings.

Keywords: community pharmacist; contraception; counselling tools; dispensing contraceptives; family planning; patient-centred.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests in this work.

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Analytic framework for systematic review of patient-centred counselling tools for dispensing contraceptives in community pharmacy settings.
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Risk of bias and overall risk for the selected studies. Adapted from McGuinness LA, Higgins JPT. Risk-of-bias VISualization (robvis): an R package and shiny web app for visualizing risk-of-bias assessments. Res Synth Methods. 2021;12(1):55–61. © 2020 The Authors.Research Synthesis Methods published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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Systematic review flow diagram. *Rayyan Automation tools were used to help expedite the initial screening of abstracts and titles using a semi-automation process to indicate how many records were excluded. Adapted from Moher D, Liberati A, Tetzlaff J, Altman DG. Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement. BMJ. 2009;339(7716):332–336. Creative Commons.
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