Educational program
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Before participating in this study, pharmacists attended a 5-hour training course on CBT-based medication support. This training program was developed by Tanuma et al. with a focus on community pharmacists [
The commentary on building basic communication with patients was shortened.The role-playing cases were limited to depressed patients.Added detailed commentary on how to deal with depressed patients.The role-plays were conducted in pairs of three, with the patient, pharmacist, and observer roles, respectively. The person playing the role of the patient responded to the person playing the role of the pharmacist according to his or her preferences. The concept is that the pharmacist uses cognitive reconstruction skills to elicit evidence from the patient’s thoughts and moods, guiding the patient to recognize his or her own rebuttal to the evidence. Observers provide feedback after the role-play. After the role-play, each of the three participants discussed their impressions, what the person who played the role of the pharmacist aimed to achieve, and areas for improvement. The program also uses an original thought record table, and the pharmacists learned how to use it. An example of a role-play and a thought record table are provided in Supplemental Figs. 1 and 2.