title: Medication counseling behaviors and attitudes of rural community pharmacists.
abstract: There is a continued emphasis on developing the pharmacist's medication counseling role to better serve the public. To understand this role, the present study utilized a shopper methodology to describe the extent to which 40 rural community pharmacists engage in five dimensions of counseling for each of two drug products. The study demonstrates a significant relationship between the attitudes toward counseling held by these practitioners and their actual counseling behaviors.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001290:Attitude; D003157:Community Pharmacy Services; D003376:Counseling; D004346:Drug Information Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010595:Pharmacists; D012423:Rural Health; D014922:Wisconsin