Community Pharmacists' Knowledge, Attitude and Practices towards | ||||
| The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine | ||||
| Article 28, Volume 70, Issue 7, January 2018, Page 1234-1237 PDF (188.02 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.12816/0044556 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Fakhir Thamir Alotaibi1; Attiah Abdullrhman Khobrani1; Mesfer Safar Almalki1; Hassan Abdullah Aljabri2 | ||||
| 1Security Forces Hospital of Makkah | ||||
| 2Alnahdi Medical Group | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: As a result of the wide antibiotic abuse in many communities all over, bacterial resistance against different antibiotic formulas has aroused. It is an actual matter of importance because it touches up the most crucial principles of pharmacy and devoted work for medicine field in general. Objectives: We have come to the aim of assessing the knowledge, attitude, and practice of pharmacists concerning dispensing antibiotics without prescription. We are discussing the ethical and legal elements contributing in the judgment of the final results and decision about the matter. Material and methods: We are using the questionnaire test method to assess the knowledge and measure the attitude and practice of those pharmacists in marks and degrees. Results: the pharmacists working in community pharmacies lack the knowledge of the legality of DAwD, though they know the greatly bad influence of it over the resistivity in bacteria and viruses. That of course goes along with the knowledge degree of the patients themselves Conclusion: We have come to a conclusion that most of the pharmacists had no prior knowledge of the illegality of dispensing antibiotics without prescription "DAwP". And of course, we recommend to enhance the awareness and knowledge of them by raising educational training programs. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Pharmacists; KAP; Bacterial resistance; DAwP; Knowledge; Attitude; Practice | ||||
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