PHARMACISTS are trusted and accessible healthcare professionals who are accustomed to delivering brief health behaviour change with technique-based interventions for chronic health conditions.
However, little is known about the factors influencing pharmacists' use of behaviour change techniques and their capacity to deliver these interventions within community pharmacies in Australia.
A Curtin University study, led by Dr Chloe Maxwell-Smith from the Curtin School of Population Health, employed the COM-B model to explore the factors that explain pharmacists' delivery of behaviour change techniques in practice.
A secondary objective was to ascertain whether capability, opportunity, and motivation are associated with and explain significant variance in using behaviour change techniques during patient interactions.
"The study found pharmacist motivation was the most important construct explaining behaviour change technique use," Smith said.
"Interventions should seek to foster pharmacist motivation and may benefit from adopting COM-B as a behaviour change framework, to understand the factors influencing the delivery of behaviour change interventions."
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