Janie Sheridan

..To estimate the prevalence of risky drinking among customers in community pharmacies and to explore customer attitudes towards screening and brief intervention (SBI)...

..To explore barriers to, and incentives for, clients on methadone-maintenance treatment (MMT) in Auckland, New Zealand to transfer from secondary care to general practitioner (GP) care...

..This role has not been taken up by community pharmacists. This study aimed to explore attitudes, knowledge, barriers and incentives towards involvement of community pharmacists in New Zealand with problem drinkers...

..The paper provides a timely account of an emerging drug issue of relevance to harm reduction internationally...

..The aim of this research was to describe the types of prescription medicines being imported into New Zealand...

..This paper explores what their legal status communicated to young users...

..To begin to explore the role of PAs more fully in a New Zealand context, through semi-structured interviews with PAs and pharmacists...

..Prescription drug misuse (PDM) is an international phenomenon. Prescription drugs sought for this purpose are often obtained through the primary health care network...

..The aim of this study was to develop a method for measuring prevalence of risky drinking among community pharmacy customers and to explore acceptability of this method to participating pharmacists...

..As with the previous study, the results suggest therapists typically expect and prefer treatment of a considerably longer duration than the service mean and underestimate the rate of client dropout...

..The aim was to determine New Zealand pharmacists' views on the range of services outlined in the Ten Year Vision for Pharmacists document and the need for accreditation to provide these services...

..Extensive involvement was identified, and considerable underused capacity was noted. This study explores these and potential new roles 10 years on...

..These findings indicate that psychiatric clinicians are receptive to employing this test as a clinical support tool if its implementation is carefully considered and economically justifiable...

..To examine the impact of audit and feedback on antipsychotic prescribing for schizophrenia outpatients over 4.5 years...

..To describe the development and evaluation of the Substances and Choices Scale (SACS), an adolescent alcohol and other drug (AOD) self-report instrument designed in a similar format to the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)...

..To identify the distribution of CYP2D6 metaboliser status in patients who were being prescribed risperidone for the treatment of psychosis in a New Zealand-based clinical population...

..Despite this, the system was seen as functioning due to the high level of commitment of the people who work within it...

..Accordingly, this paper presents findings from a study that sought to identify whether clients and/or their respective clinicians were aware of pending service exit that occurred within the first 2 months of treatment admission...

..Several reported risk-taking behaviors on the first occasion of use. The findings have important implications for potential interventions and harm reduction strategies at first use...

..The aim was to explore the views of community pharmacists toward the development of SBI for risky drinkers through semi-structured interviews...

..To determine the alignment between New Zealand pharmacists' views and the New Zealand Ten-Year Vision (TYV) document and explore factors associated with individuals' alignment...

..Participants suggested it would take them, on average, 40-min out of the 60-min intervention opportunity to collect the stated assessment information...

..The objective of this study was to evaluate general practitioners' (GPs) perceptions regarding access to medicines in New Zealand...

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..This study aimed to understand issues for primary care health practitioners in relation to prescription drug misuse (PDM), by exploring the attitudes and experiences of healthcare professionals with respect to PDM...

..This study aimed to determine New Zealand pharmacists' awareness of, recall of consultation about, and potential barriers to the implementation of the Focus on the Future: Ten Year Vision for Pharmacists in New Zealand: 2004-2014 document...

..Reducing health disparities is a priority for the New Zealand (NZ) Government and the health care sector and, although not mandatory until 2012, Competence Standard 1 for NZ pharmacists has been revised to reflect this...

..Problem-improvement was endorsed as the number one reason for short-term service exit. Implications for treatment delivery are discussed in light of these findings...

..The aim of this study was to review treatment patterns of sedative-hypnotic agents within an acute adult inpatient psychiatric service, compare prescribing with best-practice recommendations for use and explore potential interventions...

..To assess changes in opiate prescribing (1995-2005) following a decade of national guidelines to address substandard opiate substitution prescribing for heroin addiction...

..Clients in opioid substitution therapy often have considerable unmet health-care needs. The current study aimed to explore health problems related to opioid substitution therapy among clients on methadone and buprenorphine treatment...

..GPs occupy a pivotal position in relation to providing services to opiate misusers in the UK, and this is now cited to support initiatives in other countries...

..Reference to the original records reveals a more interesting picture than might be evident from the potentially selective recall of contemporary or historical commentators...

..To identify the prevalence of blood-borne viruses (BBVs) testing, counselling and vaccination services by drug and alcohol services for injecting drug users in Australia...