Biomedical Sciences ETDs
Publication Date
Summer 7-6-2022
Abstract
Women report significant barriers to obtaining hormonal contraception prescriptions, including difficulty scheduling clinician appointments, inconvenient clinic hours and desire to avoid pelvic examinations. To increase contraceptive access, states throughout the United States have and continue to pass legislation authorizing pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraception, allowing women to initiate contraception directly at the pharmacy without involvement of a physician. Despite patient and pharmacist interest in direct pharmacy access to contraception, many pharmacists report challenges to prescribing contraception. Few studies have assessed the uptake of pharmacy-prescribed contraception in states with expanded pharmacist prescriptive authority, but no prior studies have evaluated the implementation process of establishing pharmacist-prescribed hormonal contraception.
This thesis evaluates the current literature on the availability of pharmacist-prescribed hormonal contraception in the United States, presents research on implementation of pharmacist-prescribed contraception, and discusses the importance of understanding implementation for future legislative policy changes.
Keywords
contraception, pharmacist prescribing, family planning, implementation
Document Type
Thesis
Language
English
Degree Name
Biomedical Sciences
First Committee Member (Chair)
Lisa Hofler, MD, MPH, MBA
Second Committee Member
Eve Espey, MD, MPH
Third Committee Member
Andrew Sussman, PhD
Fourth Committee Member
Alexandra Herman, PharmD
Recommended Citation
Dale, Lindsay E.. "Implementation of Pharmacy Access to Hormonal Contraception." (2022). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/biom_etds/227
