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. 2018 Jun 14;15:E81. doi: 10.5888/pcd15.170485
Would you please describe your daily role as a community pharmacist?
Could you please tell me the demographics of most of the customers that present to your pharmacy?
Do you have a doctor’s surgery nearby?
What do you think is the current role of community pharmacists in providing health promotion, risk assessment and screening services?
What did you think about the chronic kidney disease risk assessment study?
Follow-up questions:
-What did you like most about this service?
-Was there any aspect of this service that you didn’t like?
-Was there any aspect you thought could be improved?
According to you, is the QKidney risk assessment calculator feasible or useful in a community pharmacy setting?
What was it like to recruit participants for this study?
Follow-up questions:
-What strategy did you use to recruit participants?
-How did you find the recruitment process?
-Did you find it difficult or easy to recruit participants?
-Could you give me examples of a few reasons that participants used for declining to participate in this study?
How did your participants respond to this risk assessment service? Did they seem interested?
Did your participants know what chronic kidney disease is before participation?
Follow-up questions:
-What did your patients think about it?
-What was their reaction?
-Did they come back asking about it?
-Have you received any feedback from participants?
Did you have your own target in mind that you would recruit at least X number of participants for this study and were you able to accomplish your target?
Follow-up questions:
-What prevented you from achieving your target?
What do you think stops people in the community from participating in a pharmacist-led chronic kidney disease risk assessment service?
Do you think people in the community need a chronic kidney disease risk assessment service?
Have you had any feedback from a general practitioner or a nurse with regards to the chronic kidney disease risk assessment service?
Overall, would you consider the chronic kidney disease risk assessment service to be a success? Why?
Follow-up question:
-I am curious to know whether you would be willing to offer this service in your community pharmacy if you had a choice.
Finally, if there was anything that you would have changed or done differently when it comes to implementing similar research projects in your community pharmacy in future, what or how would you do it?
Thank you once again for participating in this study.