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Factors Associated with Psychotropic Medications Literacy among Community Pharmacists
Background and objectives: Community pharmacists play an important role in ensuring the patient’s adherence to medications, thus achieving therapeutic outcomes. The present study had two aims: to measure the extent of knowledge that community pharmacists had about psychotropic medications and to det...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10056436/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36984619 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina59030618 |
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author | Alqudah, Abdelrahim Al-Taani, Ghaith Handal, Daniel Al Sharab, Rahaf Al Shreideh, Rawan Al-Smadi, Ahmed Qnais, Esam Gammoh, Omar |
author_facet | Alqudah, Abdelrahim Al-Taani, Ghaith Handal, Daniel Al Sharab, Rahaf Al Shreideh, Rawan Al-Smadi, Ahmed Qnais, Esam Gammoh, Omar |
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description | Background and objectives: Community pharmacists play an important role in ensuring the patient’s adherence to medications, thus achieving therapeutic outcomes. The present study had two aims: to measure the extent of knowledge that community pharmacists had about psychotropic medications and to determine the factors associated with higher knowledge scores. Methods: A cross-sectional design was employed, using a structured online questionnaire. The study instrument assessed demographics, general practice characteristics related to psychotropics and a battery of factual questions that assessed the knowledge of pharmacists about psychotropic medications using closed-ended responses. A total knowledge score consisting of the sum of correct responses was calculated; the passing score was 75%. A total of 676 pharmacists completed the survey. Results: Only 20% passed the threshold score (75%) for the factual knowledge questions, and only (11.0%) were very comfortable with their knowledge of psychotropic agents. A total of 49.0% of the respondents felt that they had been adequately trained to counsel patients on psychotropic agents. According to the regression model, pharmacists who reported higher knowledge were more experienced (0.63, (0.26–1.0), p < 0.001), reported studying the topic in the pharmacy school (0.77 (0.27–1.26), p = 0.002) holding a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D) degree (0.24 (0.05–0.43), p = 0.01), and reported a higher perceived knowledge (0.29 (0.01–0.38), p = 0.038). Conclusion: Community pharmacists reported poor knowledge of psychotropic medications, and continuous medical and professional education programs are mandatory. |
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spelling | pubmed-100564362023-03-30 Factors Associated with Psychotropic Medications Literacy among Community Pharmacists Alqudah, Abdelrahim Al-Taani, Ghaith Handal, Daniel Al Sharab, Rahaf Al Shreideh, Rawan Al-Smadi, Ahmed Qnais, Esam Gammoh, Omar Medicina (Kaunas) Article Background and objectives: Community pharmacists play an important role in ensuring the patient’s adherence to medications, thus achieving therapeutic outcomes. The present study had two aims: to measure the extent of knowledge that community pharmacists had about psychotropic medications and to determine the factors associated with higher knowledge scores. Methods: A cross-sectional design was employed, using a structured online questionnaire. The study instrument assessed demographics, general practice characteristics related to psychotropics and a battery of factual questions that assessed the knowledge of pharmacists about psychotropic medications using closed-ended responses. A total knowledge score consisting of the sum of correct responses was calculated; the passing score was 75%. A total of 676 pharmacists completed the survey. Results: Only 20% passed the threshold score (75%) for the factual knowledge questions, and only (11.0%) were very comfortable with their knowledge of psychotropic agents. A total of 49.0% of the respondents felt that they had been adequately trained to counsel patients on psychotropic agents. According to the regression model, pharmacists who reported higher knowledge were more experienced (0.63, (0.26–1.0), p < 0.001), reported studying the topic in the pharmacy school (0.77 (0.27–1.26), p = 0.002) holding a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D) degree (0.24 (0.05–0.43), p = 0.01), and reported a higher perceived knowledge (0.29 (0.01–0.38), p = 0.038). Conclusion: Community pharmacists reported poor knowledge of psychotropic medications, and continuous medical and professional education programs are mandatory. MDPI 2023-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10056436/ /pubmed/36984619 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina59030618 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Alqudah, Abdelrahim Al-Taani, Ghaith Handal, Daniel Al Sharab, Rahaf Al Shreideh, Rawan Al-Smadi, Ahmed Qnais, Esam Gammoh, Omar Factors Associated with Psychotropic Medications Literacy among Community Pharmacists |
title | Factors Associated with Psychotropic Medications Literacy among Community Pharmacists |
title_full | Factors Associated with Psychotropic Medications Literacy among Community Pharmacists |
title_fullStr | Factors Associated with Psychotropic Medications Literacy among Community Pharmacists |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors Associated with Psychotropic Medications Literacy among Community Pharmacists |
title_short | Factors Associated with Psychotropic Medications Literacy among Community Pharmacists |
title_sort | factors associated with psychotropic medications literacy among community pharmacists |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10056436/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36984619 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina59030618 |
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