Pain Physicians’ Attitudes and Experiences Regarding Clinical Pharmacy Services in China: A National Cross-Sectional Survey
Wangjun Qin,1 Siyu Yuan,2 Li Zhao,1 Ying Liu,1 Liyuan Xu,3 Yi Zhang,3 Lihong Liu,1 Bifa Fan3 1Department of Pharmacy, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Pharmacy, Siping Central Hospital, Siping, Jilin Province, People’s Republic...
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| description | Wangjun Qin,1 Siyu Yuan,2 Li Zhao,1 Ying Liu,1 Liyuan Xu,3 Yi Zhang,3 Lihong Liu,1 Bifa Fan3 1Department of Pharmacy, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Pharmacy, Siping Central Hospital, Siping, Jilin Province, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Pain Management, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Lihong Liu; Bifa Fan, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, 2 Yinghua Road, Heping District, Beijing, 100029, People’s Republic of China, Tel +860184205959, Fax +860184205559, Email hongllh@126.com; fyinsuo@yeah.netPurpose: Pharmacists are key members of the pain management interdisciplinary team in many developed countries. However, the implementation of clinical pharmacy services in pain management is impeded by the imbalance between the pain physicians and clinical pharmacists specializing in pain management in China. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the perceptions, expectations and current experience of Chinese pain physicians regarding clinical pharmacy services.Patients and Methods: An anonymous, self-administered questionnaire was designed according to previously published studies with minor modifications and distributed online to 1100 pain physicians selected randomly in hospitals across all 31 provinces of mainland China in 2021. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.Results: A total of 1071 valid questionnaires were included for analysis. The pain physicians were from all 31 provinces of mainland China and most of them were from tertiary hospitals holding an undergraduate degree. Among listed kinds of clinical pharmacy services, pain physicians were less comfortable with pharmacists treating minor illnesses (p < 0.001). Pain physicians’ experiences with clinical pharmacy services were far less than their expectations (p < 0.001), which is in line with the results that most of pain physicians (65.9%) interacted with pharmacists at a frequency of less than once a week. Significant differences in the experiences were found among ages (p < 0.01) and among years of work experience (p < 0.05) of pain physicians. Pain physicians’ expectations of pharmacists were positively correlated with their experiences with clinical pharmacy services (p < 0.001).Conclusion: Pain physicians in China had positive perceptions and high expectations, but relatively low experiences regarding clinical pharmacy services. Expanding clinical pharmacist pain management credentialing and increasing pain physicians’ exposure to clinical pharmacy services are favourable to support the interdisciplinary collaboration in pain management in China.Keywords: clinical pharmacy services, pain management, interdisciplinary collaboration, professional competence, primary health care |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8d449a77693f47d490c6dfdbc04cafb12023-01-10T18:24:31ZengDove Medical PressJournal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare1178-23902023-01-01Volume 16212980895Pain Physicians’ Attitudes and Experiences Regarding Clinical Pharmacy Services in China: A National Cross-Sectional SurveyQin WYuan SZhao LLiu YXu LZhang YLiu LFan BWangjun Qin,1 Siyu Yuan,2 Li Zhao,1 Ying Liu,1 Liyuan Xu,3 Yi Zhang,3 Lihong Liu,1 Bifa Fan3 1Department of Pharmacy, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Pharmacy, Siping Central Hospital, Siping, Jilin Province, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Pain Management, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Lihong Liu; Bifa Fan, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, 2 Yinghua Road, Heping District, Beijing, 100029, People’s Republic of China, Tel +860184205959, Fax +860184205559, Email hongllh@126.com; fyinsuo@yeah.netPurpose: Pharmacists are key members of the pain management interdisciplinary team in many developed countries. However, the implementation of clinical pharmacy services in pain management is impeded by the imbalance between the pain physicians and clinical pharmacists specializing in pain management in China. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the perceptions, expectations and current experience of Chinese pain physicians regarding clinical pharmacy services.Patients and Methods: An anonymous, self-administered questionnaire was designed according to previously published studies with minor modifications and distributed online to 1100 pain physicians selected randomly in hospitals across all 31 provinces of mainland China in 2021. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.Results: A total of 1071 valid questionnaires were included for analysis. The pain physicians were from all 31 provinces of mainland China and most of them were from tertiary hospitals holding an undergraduate degree. Among listed kinds of clinical pharmacy services, pain physicians were less comfortable with pharmacists treating minor illnesses (p < 0.001). Pain physicians’ experiences with clinical pharmacy services were far less than their expectations (p < 0.001), which is in line with the results that most of pain physicians (65.9%) interacted with pharmacists at a frequency of less than once a week. Significant differences in the experiences were found among ages (p < 0.01) and among years of work experience (p < 0.05) of pain physicians. Pain physicians’ expectations of pharmacists were positively correlated with their experiences with clinical pharmacy services (p < 0.001).Conclusion: Pain physicians in China had positive perceptions and high expectations, but relatively low experiences regarding clinical pharmacy services. Expanding clinical pharmacist pain management credentialing and increasing pain physicians’ exposure to clinical pharmacy services are favourable to support the interdisciplinary collaboration in pain management in China.Keywords: clinical pharmacy services, pain management, interdisciplinary collaboration, professional competence, primary health carehttps://www.dovepress.com/pain-physicians-attitudes-and-experiences-regarding-clinical-pharmacy--peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JMDHpharmacy servicespain managementinterdisciplinary collaborationprofessional competenceprimary health care |
| spellingShingle | Qin W Yuan S Zhao L Liu Y Xu L Zhang Y Liu L Fan B Pain Physicians’ Attitudes and Experiences Regarding Clinical Pharmacy Services in China: A National Cross-Sectional Survey Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare pharmacy services pain management interdisciplinary collaboration professional competence primary health care |
| title | Pain Physicians’ Attitudes and Experiences Regarding Clinical Pharmacy Services in China: A National Cross-Sectional Survey |
| title_full | Pain Physicians’ Attitudes and Experiences Regarding Clinical Pharmacy Services in China: A National Cross-Sectional Survey |
| title_fullStr | Pain Physicians’ Attitudes and Experiences Regarding Clinical Pharmacy Services in China: A National Cross-Sectional Survey |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pain Physicians’ Attitudes and Experiences Regarding Clinical Pharmacy Services in China: A National Cross-Sectional Survey |
| title_short | Pain Physicians’ Attitudes and Experiences Regarding Clinical Pharmacy Services in China: A National Cross-Sectional Survey |
| title_sort | pain physicians rsquo attitudes and experiences regarding clinical pharmacy services in china a national cross sectional survey |
| topic | pharmacy services pain management interdisciplinary collaboration professional competence primary health care |
| url | https://www.dovepress.com/pain-physicians-attitudes-and-experiences-regarding-clinical-pharmacy--peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JMDH |
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