title: An instrument to evaluate pharmacists' patient counseling on herbal and dietary supplements.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To develop a measure of pharmacists' patient counseling on herbal and dietary supplements.
  
  
  METHODS
  A systematic process was used for item generation, testing, and validation of a measure of pharmacists counseling on herbal and dietary supplements. Because a pharmacist-patient encounter may or may not identify an indication for taking an herb or dietary supplement, the instrument was bifurcated into 2 distinct components: (1) patient counseling in general; and (2) patient counseling related to herbal and dietary supplements.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The instrument demonstrated high reliability and desirable construct validity. After adjusting for item difficulty, we found that pharmacists tended to provide more general patient counseling than counseling related to herbal and dietary supplements.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This instrument can be applied to assess the quality of counseling provided by pharmacists and pharmacy students, and the outcomes of pharmacist and pharmacy student education on herbal and dietary supplements.
authors: College of Pharmacy, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China. hsiangwl@mail.cmu.edu.tw
authors: Hsiang-Wen
authors: HW
authors: Lin
authors: A Simon
authors: AS
authors: Pickard
authors: Gail B
authors: GB
authors: Mahady
authors: George
authors: G
authors: Karabatsos
authors: Stephanie Y
authors: SY
authors: Crawford
authors: Nicholas G
authors: NG
authors: Popovich
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D019587:Dietary Supplements / Q000009:adverse effects; D006306:Health Surveys / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D041743:Herb-Drug Interactions; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D010595:Pharmacists / Q000592:standards; D010865:Pilot Projects; D028321:Plant Preparations / Q000009:adverse effects; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D028321:Plant Preparations