ABSTRACT
Objective: To clarify changes in community pharmacists’ knowledge, attitudes, and practice regarding the management of hypertension before and after attending educational interventions based on their self-report on a questionnaire survey.
Method: We conducted questionnaire surveys regarding the management of hypertension with a sample of community pharmacists before and after educational interventions.
Results: The proportions of pharmacists who knew the 2014 Japanese Society of Hypertension Guidelines, guidelines for home blood pressure measurement, reference values for hypertension based on clinic-measured blood pressure, and reference values for hypertension based on home-measured blood pressure after the educational interventions (59.3%, 41.4%, 75.1%, and 70.8% respectively) were significantly higher relative to those recorded before interventions (31.6%, 13.7%, 47.7%, and 25.4% respectively).
Conclusions: These findings suggest that in-house training might increase the knowledge of community pharmacists regarding hypertension management.
Acknowledgments
We wish to thank all of the pharmacists who responded to the questionnaire in the study.
Conflicts of interest
Omron Healthcare gave research support to Y Imai. None of the other authors have conflicts of interest to report.