Key stakeholder perspectives on the barriers and solutions to pharmacy practice towards complementary medicines: an Australian experience

Table 1 Barriers hindering pharmacists from providing care for patients/consumers using CMs

Barriers		Practicing Pharmacist 1	Practicing Pharmacist 2	Pharmacy owner	Pharmacist profession al organization	Consumer advocacy group	Doctor professional organization	CM practitione r profession al organization	Leader within a pharmacy school	Regulatory authority senior staff 1	Regulatory authority senior staff 2	CM industry
1. Insufficient knowledge about		YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
2. Pharmacists’attitude	Being skeptical									YES		YES
	Lack of initiative	YES		YES	YES				YES		YES
	Lack of confidence and communication skills	YES				YES						YES
3. Lack of research skills		YES			YES	YES			YES	YES	YES	YES
4. Lack of evidence for efficacy and safety of CM s		YES			YES	YES			YES	YES	YES
5. Lack of access to reliable and reputable information and support		YES	YES	YES		YES	YES	YES		YES	YES	YES
6. Lack of time				YES		YES
7. Consumers’attitude	Misperception about CMs				YES				YES
7. Consumers’attitude	Pharmacists don’t know much										YES	YES
8. Lack of defined role					YES				YES
9. Miscommunication with doctors					YES				YES

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