Evaluation of a Gatekeeper Training for Pharmacists

University Ghent

Status: Completed

Conditions: Suicide

Treatments: Behavioral: Gatekeeper training (e-learning)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05991635

ONZ-2022-0598

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to investigate to what extent a gatekeeper training (e-learning) for pharmacists and PTA is effective in changing the attitudes, knowledge, and self-efficacy. Moreover, it aims to examine how they evaluate the training and whether they were able to apply the learned skills in practice.

Enrollment: 201 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ≥ 18 years old
• Have access to internet
• Speak Dutch
• Working as a (public) pharmacist or pharmaceutical technical assistant (FTA)

Exclusion criteria

• Hospital pharmacists or industrial pharmacists are not included in this study and thus constitute an exclusion criterion.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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201 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group (all participants) are asked to complete a questionnaire and then receive access to the online gatekeeper training (e-learning) during three days, after which they were asked to complete another questionnaire. After three months, a third questionnaire is sent.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Gatekeeper training (e-learning)