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Makhlouf AM, Mohamed Ibrahim MI, Awaisu A, Vyas SK, Yusuff KB. Determinants of community pharmacists' information gathering and counseling practices during the management of minor ailments. Saudi Pharm J 2021; 29:992-998. [PMID: 34588845 PMCID: PMC8463464 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsps.2021.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 07/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Objective To assess the determinants of community pharmacists' information gathering and counseling practices during the management of minor ailments in Qatar. Method A cross-sectional study of 305 community pharmacists was conducted with a pre-tested 27-item questionnaire. Bivariate logistic regression was used to identify the determinants of information gathering and counseling practices. Results The response rate was 92.5% (282/305). A majority of the respondents (68.1%) were males, within the age range of 31-40 years (55.3%), work for chains pharmacies (77.3%), and were predominantly of foreign nationalities (94.7%). Patients' identity (91.1%), age (92.2%), symptoms (92.6%) and duration of symptoms (89.3%) were most frequent information gathered, while dose (99%), frequency (97.8%), route of administration (95.7%), and duration of use (92.9%) were the most frequent counseling information. Median information gathering score was significantly higher in females and among community pharmacists in chain pharmacies (p < 0.05), while median counseling practice scores were significantly higher among in chain pharmacies (p < 0.05). Consultation time of 6-10 min (OR = 1.75, 95% CI: 1.02-3.0, p = 0.04) and female gender (OR = 2.10, 95% CI: 1.16-3.79, p = 0.01) were significant determinants of information gathering, while age group (31-40 years) (OR = 1.84, 95% CI: 1.05-3.22, p = 0.03) and consultation time (6-10 min) (OR = 2.24, 95% CI: 1.31-3.86, p = 0.003) were significant determinants of counseling practices. Conclusion The significant determinants of community pharmacists' Information gathering and counseling practices during the management of minor ailments were female gender and consultation time (6-10 min), and age group (31-40 years) and consultation time (6-10 min) respectively.
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- Ahmed Mohamed Makhlouf
- Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Practice, College of Pharmacy, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Practice, College of Pharmacy, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Practice, College of Pharmacy, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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Bowler A, Habicht J, Moses-Payne ME, Steinbeis N, Moutoussis M, Hauser TU. Children perform extensive information gathering when it is not costly. Cognition 2021; 208:104535. [PMID: 33370652 PMCID: PMC7871012 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Revised: 11/27/2020] [Accepted: 12/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Humans often face decisions where little is known about the choice options. Gathering information prior to making a choice is an important strategy to improve decision making under uncertainty. This is of particular importance during childhood and adolescence, when knowledge about the world is still limited. To examine how much information youths gather, we asked 107 children (8-9 years, N = 30), early (12-13 years, N = 41) and late adolescents (16-17 years, N = 36) to perform an information sampling task. We find that children gather significantly more information before making a decision compared to adolescents, but only if it does not come with explicit costs. Using computational modelling, we find that this is because children have reduced subjective costs for gathering information. Our findings thus demonstrate how children overcome their limited knowledge and neurocognitive constraints by deploying excessive information gathering, a developmental feature that could inform aberrant information gathering in psychiatric disorders.
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- Aislinn Bowler
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London WC1B 5EH, United Kingdom; Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom; Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom
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- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London WC1B 5EH, United Kingdom; Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom
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- Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London WC1H 0AP, United Kingdom
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- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London WC1B 5EH, United Kingdom; Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom
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- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London WC1B 5EH, United Kingdom; Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom.
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Keller AM, Taylor HA, Brunyé TT. Uncertainty promotes information-seeking actions, but what information? Cogn Res Princ Implic 2020; 5:42. [PMID: 32894402 PMCID: PMC7477035 DOI: 10.1186/s41235-020-00245-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2019] [Accepted: 08/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Navigating an unfamiliar city almost certainly brings out uncertainty about getting from place to place. This uncertainty, in turn, triggers information gathering. While navigational uncertainty is common, little is known about what type of information people seek when they are uncertain. The primary choices for information types with environments include landmarks (distal or local), landmark configurations (relation between two or more landmarks), and a distinct geometry, at least for some environments. Uncertainty could lead individuals to more likely seek one of these information types. Extant research informs both predictions about and empirical work exploring this question. This review covers relevant cognitive literature and then suggests empirical approaches to better understand information-seeking actions triggered by uncertainty. Notably, we propose that examining continuous navigation data can provide important insights into information seeking. Benefits of continuous data will be elaborated through one paradigm, spatial reorientation, which intentionally induces uncertainty through disorientation and cue conflict. While this and other methods have been used previously, data have primarily reflected only the final choice. Continuous behavior during a task can better reveal the cognition-action loop contributing to spatial learning and decision making.
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- Ashlynn M Keller
- Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 490 Boston Ave., Medford, MA, 02155, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 490 Boston Ave., Medford, MA, 02155, USA.,Tufts University, Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 200 Boston Ave., Suite 1800, Medford, MA, 02155, USA
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- Tufts University, Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 200 Boston Ave., Suite 1800, Medford, MA, 02155, USA.,US Army CCDC Soldier Center, 15 General Greene Ave., Natick, MA, 01760, USA
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Anakin MG, Duffull SB, Wright DFB. Therapeutic decision-making in primary care pharmacy practice. Res Social Adm Pharm 2021; 17:326-31. [PMID: 32305268 DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2019] [Revised: 04/04/2020] [Accepted: 04/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Therapeutic decision-making is a core element of pharmacy practice, however, little has been documented about how it is enacted in practice and how it can be theorised. OBJECTIVE(S) This study aims to contribute to pharmacy education and practice theory by investigating the correspondence between explanations from primary care pharmacists in clinical practice roles about how they make decisions related to medicines therapy and a theoretical model of therapeutic decision-making. METHODS In this qualitative study, interview data from 10 pharmacists in primary care settings were analysed using a general inductive approach. The emergent themes were compared to a theoretical model of therapeutic decision-making. RESULTS Eight themes were identified from the explanations of how participants were making therapeutic decisions in practice. The themes were found to correspond to at least one of the four steps of therapeutic decision-making in the model. Themes corresponding to the information gathering step were described most vividly, whereas, the themes corresponding to the reasoning, judgement, and decision steps were less well-articulated. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that the theoretical model can be useful to interpret empirical data about therapeutic decision-making in practice. These findings might provide a means for pharmacists to adopt language to better describe the steps in their therapeutic decision-making process to others, and especially, their colleagues and patients. Findings can be used by pharmacy educators to design learning opportunities for students about therapeutic decision-making.
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Vrij A, Leal S, Mann S, Dalton G, Jo E, Shaboltas A, Khaleeva M, Granskaya J, Houston K. Using the model statement to elicit information and cues to deceit in interpreter-based interviews. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2017; 177:44-53. [PMID: 28477454 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2016] [Revised: 04/22/2017] [Accepted: 04/26/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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We examined how the presence of an interpreter during an interview affects eliciting information and cues to deceit, while using a method that encourages interviewees to provide more detail (model statement, MS). A total of 199 Hispanic, Korean and Russian participants were interviewed either in their own native language without an interpreter, or through an interpreter. Interviewees either lied or told the truth about a trip they made during the last twelve months. Half of the participants listened to a MS at the beginning of the interview. The dependent variables were 'detail', 'complications', 'common knowledge details', 'self-handicapping strategies' and 'ratio of complications'. In the MS-absent condition, the interviews resulted in less detail when an interpreter was present than when an interpreter was absent. In the MS-present condition, the interviews resulted in a similar amount of detail in the interpreter present and absent conditions. Truthful statements included more complications and fewer common knowledge details and self-handicapping strategies than deceptive statements, and the ratio of complications was higher for truth tellers than liars. The MS strengthened these results, whereas an interpreter had no effect on these results.
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Vredenburgh C, Kushnir T. Young Children's Help-Seeking as Active Information Gathering. Cogn Sci 2015; 40:697-722. [PMID: 25916349 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2014] [Revised: 01/12/2015] [Accepted: 01/16/2015] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Young children's social learning is a topic of great interest. Here, we examined preschoolers' (M = 52.44 months, SD = 9.7 months) help-seeking as a social information gathering activity that may optimize and support children's opportunities for learning. In a toy assembly task, we assessed each child's competency at assembling toys and the difficulty of each step of the task. We hypothesized that children's help-seeking would be a function of both initial competency and task difficulty. The results confirmed this prediction; all children were more likely to seek assistance on difficult steps and less competent children sought assistance more often. Moreover, the magnitude of the help-seeking requests (from asking for verbal confirmation to asking the adult to take over the task) similarly related to both competency and difficulty. The results provide support for viewing children's help-seeking as an information gathering activity, indicating that preschoolers flexibly adjust the level and amount of assistance to optimize their opportunities for learning.
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Brandt US, Svendsen GT. Is local participation always optimal for sustainable action? The costs of consensus-building in Local Agenda 21. J Environ Manage 2013; 129:266-273. [PMID: 23974351 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.07.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2012] [Revised: 05/28/2013] [Accepted: 07/15/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Is local participation always optimal for sustainable action? Here, Local Agenda 21 is a relevant case as it broadly calls for consensus-building among stakeholders. Consensus-building is, however, costly. We show that the costs of making local decisions are likely to rapidly exceed the benefits. Why? Because as the number of participants grows, the more likely it is that the group will include individuals who have an extreme position and are unwilling to make compromises. Thus, the net gain of self-organization should be compared with those of its alternatives, for example voting, market-solutions, or not making any choices at all. Even though the informational value of meetings may be helpful to policy makers, the model shows that it also decreases as the number of participants increase. Overall, the result is a thought provoking scenario for Local Agenda 21 as it highlights the risk of less sustainable action in the future.
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- Urs Steiner Brandt
- Department of Environment and Business Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark.
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Brata C, Gudka S, Schneider CR, Everett A, Fisher C, Clifford RM. A review of the information-gathering process for the provision of medicines for self-medication via community pharmacies in developing countries. Res Social Adm Pharm 2012; 9:370-83. [PMID: 23089294 DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2012.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2012] [Revised: 08/02/2012] [Accepted: 08/02/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Currently, no review has been completed regarding the information-gathering process for the provision of medicines for self-medication in community pharmacies in developing countries. OBJECTIVE To review the rate of information gathering and the types of information gathered when patients present for self-medication requests. METHODS Six databases were searched for studies that described the rate of information gathering and/or the types of information gathered in the provision of medicines for self-medication in community pharmacies in developing countries. The types of information reported were classified as: signs and symptoms, patient identity, action taken, medications, medical history, and others. RESULTS Twenty-two studies met the inclusion criteria. Variations in the study populations, types of scenarios, research methods, and data reporting were observed. The reported rate of information gathering varied from 18% to 97%, depending on the research methods used. Information on signs and symptoms and patient identity was more frequently reported to be gathered compared with information on action taken, medications, and medical history. CONCLUSION Evidence showed that the information-gathering process for the provision of medicines for self-medication via community pharmacies in developing countries is inconsistent. There is a need to determine the barriers to appropriate information-gathering practice as well as to develop strategies to implement effective information-gathering processes. It is also recommended that international and national pharmacy organizations, including pharmacy academics and pharmacy researchers, develop a consensus on the types of information that should be reported in the original studies. This will facilitate comparison across studies so that areas that need improvement can be identified.
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- Cecilia Brata
- Pharmacy, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
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