Table 3 Capability, opportunity, motivation-behaviour (COM-B) assessment of community pharmacists in mental health care
From: A theory-informed approach to mental health care capacity building for pharmacists
COM-B assessment | Examples for community pharmacy-based mental health care |
|---|---|
Capability | |
• Psychological and physical ability | Pharmacists can improve knowledge regarding current therapeutics and condition-specific knowledge for mental illnesses. |
Motivation | |
• Reflective | Pharmacists do not always recognize that people with lived experience of mental illness are not receiving the same level of service, or at times, require a higher level of service in keeping with the principle of vertical equity. |
• Automatic | |
Most pharmacists intend to provide services in keeping with standards of practice. | |
Pharmacist do not always plan to offer additional services to people with lived experience of mental illness. | |
Opportunity | |
• Physical and social environment | Stigma is still a factor in community pharmacy setting within pharmacy staff that impacts care of those with mental illness. |
Barriers such as limited time, resources (including staff), and physical space limitations (e.g., lack of private area for discussion) are prevalent. |