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Community Pharmacists' Attitudes Toward An Expanded Class Of Nonprescription Drugs, Ruchitbhai Mukesh Shah Jan 2013

Community Pharmacists' Attitudes Toward An Expanded Class Of Nonprescription Drugs, Ruchitbhai Mukesh Shah

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Objectives: there has been considerable discussion about creating a third class of drugs which would not require a prescription, but require a pharmacist's consultation upon purchase. Very recently the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a hearing which repositioned a third class as an expanded nonprescription drug class termed as the "new paradigm" using certain innovative technologies. The specific objectives of this study were to: 1) measure community pharmacists' attitudes toward an expanded nonprescription drug class under the FDA’s proposed "new paradigm"; 2) determine if attitudes of community pharmacists toward an expanded nonprescription drug class under the FDA’s proposed "new …


The Effectiveness Of Education Interventions On Coaching Education Students’ Concussion Knowledge, Retention, And Attitudes, Brienna L. Simons Jan 2013

The Effectiveness Of Education Interventions On Coaching Education Students’ Concussion Knowledge, Retention, And Attitudes, Brienna L. Simons

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Context: Coaches who don’t have access to qualified health care providers need to be well educated on prevention, detection, assessment, and management of sport-related concussion to help decrease the risks associated. Due to the lack of assessment on educational interventions there is no way to determine the validity of the content. Objective: Determine which of three online concussion education interventions was most influential on coaches’ concussion knowledge, retention of knowledge, and their effects on attitudes amongst a sample of coaching education students. Participants: 233 coaching student’s recruited, used 154 for data analysis (71% male, x̅ age = 21.2 ± 1.68 …