Adherence
Community pharmacists can effectively support obesity management by providing weight management services (WMSs), including counseling on medications, lifestyle advice, and risk assessment, despite current underutilization of clinical metrics like BMI and waist circumference.
Pharmacists should proactively offer weight management counseling, including discussing risks of obesity and appropriate use of weight loss medications, even if they do not currently measure BMI or waist circumference. This service is valuable and supported by the paper's findings on pharmacist accessibility and patient trust.
Pharmacists are particularly considered as one of the most accessible and reliable healthcare professionals... Pharmacists can actively intervene and play a key role in obesity management... At the higher level of engagement, pharmacists alone or in collaboration with physicians and dieticians can deliver advanced weight management services (WMSs).
Why this rating
Cross-sectional survey and qualitative interviews assessing attitudes and self-reported practices, not clinical outcomes.
Source
Exploring the Role of Community Pharmacists in Obesity and Weight Management in Qatar: A Mixed-Methods Study
Sawsan AlMukdad et al. · Risk Management and Healthcare Policy · 2021
DOI 10.2147/rmhp.s309142
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