Abstract:

The study evaluated the involvement of community pharmacists in health promotion services in Oyo State, Nigeria after an educational intervention with the view of comparing it to service delivery before the training.

A post-intervention evaluation study was conducted among 48 community pharmacists after exposure to training in health promotion in 2016. Data were analysed with appropriate descriptive statistics while Paired T-test was used to determine significant differences among the study variables after comparing it to the baseline study earlier conducted.

Response rate was 87.5%. The level of involvement in health promotion services before and after training was not significant (p > 0.05). However, respondents (88%) embarked on health promotion initiatives after the training while 90.5% of them documented the services provided. On-the-spot observation revealed that respondents extended the periods of their stay on their premises, gave the practice a facelift to attract customers and provided more space for patient counselling, documented health promotion activities, held outreaches on international health days and other days as scheduled by the pharmacists.

The study concluded that the community pharmacists indicated a favourable attitude towards health promotion services and showed improvement in the services offered in their pharmacies after training.

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