Efficacy of continuing education in improving pharmacists' competencies for providing weight management service: Three-arm randomized controlled trial

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 163-173

  Sarayani, Amir ^a   Rashidian, Arash ^b   Gholami, Kheirollah ^a,c,d,e   Torkamandi, Hassan ^f   Javadi, Mohammadreza ^a,c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d Faculty of Pharmacy   (Iran)

^e TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Community pharmacist; Competence; Continuing education; Knowledge; Provider behavior; Randomized controlled trial; Small group training; Weight management

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHARMACIST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, PHARMACY, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHARMACISTS; WEIGHT REDUCTION PROGRAMS;

EID: 84866747710     PISSN: 08941912     EISSN: 1554558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chp.21141     Document Type: Article

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