Given more education and training, the majority of pharmacists want to be doing much more for their patients with mental illness, notes a research paper led by Amy Soubolsky, winner of this year’s Pharmacy Graduate Student Award for Pharmacy Practice Research from the Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada and the Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy.
Soubolsky and her team at the University of Saskatchewan set out to better understand the current role of pharmacists in mental health services and their motivation to do more. Licensed pharmacists from any practice setting in the province directly involved in patient care were eligible to participate via an electronic survey conducted in late 2021.
The research article, “Between what is and what could be: a survey of pharmacists’ practices, attitudes, and beliefs in the provision of mental health care,” was published online in September 2023 in the International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy.
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