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A qualitative study of the challenges in rearranging community pharmacy service provision during the COVID-19 public health emergency: The prism of social practice theory
OBJECTIVES: While healthcare systems struggle to manage the COVID-19 pandemic, community pharmacies have changed the way in which they serve society by ensuring the availability of primary-level medical care. This study aims to examine the rearrangement of service provision at community pharmacies t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8553664/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34734197 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100212 |
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author | Lubi, Kadi Sepp, Kristiina Rass, Hedvig Roostar, Kristiine Volmer, Daisy |
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description | OBJECTIVES: While healthcare systems struggle to manage the COVID-19 pandemic, community pharmacies have changed the way in which they serve society by ensuring the availability of primary-level medical care. This study aims to examine the rearrangement of service provision at community pharmacies through the prism of social practice theory. STUDY DESIGN: Qualitative in-depth semi-structured interviews. METHODS: In total, 21 community pharmacists, 3 hospital pharmacists and 10 experts in Estonia were interviewed. For data analysis, two-dimensional thematic textual analysis was performed according to four types of practices proposed in social practice theory and based on temporal distinction. RESULTS: The findings of this study reveal that, in order to maintain and improve community pharmacy service provision during the pandemic, there have been changes to all aspects of practice elements, including practical understandings, rules and teleological structures. The majority of challenges were experienced because of necessary changes to the habitual ways of providing pharmacy services, indicating resistance to these changes and reinforcing the need to continue existing ‘practice-bundles’. Limited access to healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in community pharmacists becoming the primary (and only) accessible healthcare contact; thus, leading to a shift in awareness about the role of pharmacists. CONCLUSIONS: Although large-scale changes may result in the dissolvement of practice-bundles and require readiness to adjust current methods of service provision, dissolution is a gradual process. There is an urgent need to support pharmacists in managing the challenges of rearranging service provision, such as immediate organisational changes, lack of information and changing resources. |
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spelling | pubmed-85536642021-10-29 A qualitative study of the challenges in rearranging community pharmacy service provision during the COVID-19 public health emergency: The prism of social practice theory Lubi, Kadi Sepp, Kristiina Rass, Hedvig Roostar, Kristiine Volmer, Daisy Public Health Pract (Oxf) Original Research OBJECTIVES: While healthcare systems struggle to manage the COVID-19 pandemic, community pharmacies have changed the way in which they serve society by ensuring the availability of primary-level medical care. This study aims to examine the rearrangement of service provision at community pharmacies through the prism of social practice theory. STUDY DESIGN: Qualitative in-depth semi-structured interviews. METHODS: In total, 21 community pharmacists, 3 hospital pharmacists and 10 experts in Estonia were interviewed. For data analysis, two-dimensional thematic textual analysis was performed according to four types of practices proposed in social practice theory and based on temporal distinction. RESULTS: The findings of this study reveal that, in order to maintain and improve community pharmacy service provision during the pandemic, there have been changes to all aspects of practice elements, including practical understandings, rules and teleological structures. The majority of challenges were experienced because of necessary changes to the habitual ways of providing pharmacy services, indicating resistance to these changes and reinforcing the need to continue existing ‘practice-bundles’. Limited access to healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in community pharmacists becoming the primary (and only) accessible healthcare contact; thus, leading to a shift in awareness about the role of pharmacists. CONCLUSIONS: Although large-scale changes may result in the dissolvement of practice-bundles and require readiness to adjust current methods of service provision, dissolution is a gradual process. There is an urgent need to support pharmacists in managing the challenges of rearranging service provision, such as immediate organisational changes, lack of information and changing resources. Elsevier 2021-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8553664/ /pubmed/34734197 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100212 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Lubi, Kadi Sepp, Kristiina Rass, Hedvig Roostar, Kristiine Volmer, Daisy A qualitative study of the challenges in rearranging community pharmacy service provision during the COVID-19 public health emergency: The prism of social practice theory |
title | A qualitative study of the challenges in rearranging community pharmacy service provision during the COVID-19 public health emergency: The prism of social practice theory |
title_full | A qualitative study of the challenges in rearranging community pharmacy service provision during the COVID-19 public health emergency: The prism of social practice theory |
title_fullStr | A qualitative study of the challenges in rearranging community pharmacy service provision during the COVID-19 public health emergency: The prism of social practice theory |
title_full_unstemmed | A qualitative study of the challenges in rearranging community pharmacy service provision during the COVID-19 public health emergency: The prism of social practice theory |
title_short | A qualitative study of the challenges in rearranging community pharmacy service provision during the COVID-19 public health emergency: The prism of social practice theory |
title_sort | qualitative study of the challenges in rearranging community pharmacy service provision during the covid-19 public health emergency: the prism of social practice theory |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8553664/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34734197 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100212 |
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