Research Article: Effects of Communication Skills Training (CST) Based on SPIKES for Insurance-Covered Pharmacy Pharmacists to Interact with Simulated Cancer Patients

Research Article: Effects of Communication Skills Training (CST) Based on SPIKES for Insurance-Covered Pharmacy Pharmacists to Interact with Simulated Cancer Patients
Lead Author: Manako Hanya
Submitted By: Kerensa Peterson, Publications Committee

What happens to patients whose typical course of treatment moves outside a doctor’s office or hospital and into the local pharmacy? Cancer patients have had treatment shifted from surgical hospital to outpatient services. A group of researchers in Japan recognized these patients were seeing their pharmacist more than their doctors after their cancer diagnosis because of the advancements in pharmaceutical treatment. It is understandable that pharmacists then bore a greater burden of educating patients about their treatment while also dealing with the psychological aspects of a cancer diagnosis.

Enter the simulated cancer patients! The researchers set out to analyze cancer patient management and the pharmacists’ communication skills before and after training with SPs based on SPIKES, a six-step process for delivering bad news. Read the full article herein the Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences to see how the pharmacists benefited from their training.

 

 

Original Link: https://jphcs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40780-017-0080-0

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