The Pharmacists' Implementation of Pharmaceutical Care (PIPC) model.
OBJECTIVE
Study purpose was to develop a theoretical framework that will explain pharmacists' behavior relative to the provision of pharmaceutical care. The model was developed from four attitude models by testing their predictive validity relative to pharmaceutical care implementation. Four hypotheses and one research question were investigated to identify determinants of behavioral intention and behavior.


METHODS
617 community pharmacists in the state of Florida, U.S.A., were surveyed twice using mail survey methodology to collect data. The first survey assessed community pharmacists' attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, past behavior recency, self-efficacies, instrumental beliefs and affect. The second survey assessed pharmacists' behavior relative to the implementation of pharmaceutical care. After establishing reliability and validity of measures, regression analysis was used to test hypotheses and research question investigated.


RESULTS
The Pharmacists' Implementation of Pharmaceutical Care (PIPC) model developed postulates that (i) behavior is directly determined by past behavior recency, behavioral intention and perceived behavioral control; (ii) psychological appraisal processes-instrumental beliefs, self-efficacies, and affect toward means-influence behavior through past behavior recency; and (iii) behavioral intention is determined by attitude, social norm and perceived behavioral control.


CONCLUSIONS
The PIPC model provides a formal scientifically validated theoretical framework which can be used to design successful intervention for pharmaceutical care implementation.
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Department of Behavioral and Administrative Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown 26506-9510, USA. FTO@wvnvm.wvnet.edu
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D003157:Community Pharmacy Services; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010595:Pharmacists / Q000523:psychology*; D012044:Regression Analysis