Recipients of NPPG award study pupils' views on chronic illness
The experiences of young people with chronic illness will be investigated by this year's winners of the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists' Group research award, organised in association with Mandeville Medicines (a manufacturer of unlicensed “specials”).
Researchers from the School of Pharmacy, University of London, and University
College London Hospitals NHS Trust will interview children and teenagers
from five to 18 years of age in full-time education, and their parents
or carers, recruited from paediatric outpatient clinics for asthma, diabetes,
rheumatology and gastroenterology at University College Hospital.
Kevin Taylor, professor of clinical pharmaceutics at the School of Pharmacy
and one of the researchers, said that the project “will allow documentation
of practices and procedures within schools, provide information on the
perspectives and problems of young people and their parents and enable
an assessment of the extent to which young people are supported in the
safe and optimal use of their medicines”.
The £5,000 grant will be awarded at the NPPG conference in Harrogate
next week.
Last year’s winners will present the findings of their research
at the conference; the team from the Evelina Children’s Hospital
pharmacy department and Stratford Pharmacy (a community pharmacy in London)
looked at the development of an electronic learning and assessment package
for responding to the symptoms of childhood ailments. |
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