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Competence in metered dose inhaler technique among community pharmacy professionals in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia: Knowledge and skill gap analysis

BACKGROUND: When compared to systemic administration, if used correctly inhalers deliver a smaller enough percent of the drug right to the site of action in the lungs, with a faster onset of effect and with reduced systemic availability that minimizes adverse effects. However, the health professiona...

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Autores principales: Belachew, Sewunet Admasu, Tilahun, Fasil, Ketsela, Tirsit, Achaw Ayele, Asnakew, Kassie Netere, Adeladlew, Getnet Mersha, Amanual, Befekadu Abebe, Tamrat, Melaku Gebresillassie, Begashaw, Getachew Tegegn, Henok, Asfaw Erku, Daniel
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5703544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29176836
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188360
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author Belachew, Sewunet Admasu
Tilahun, Fasil
Ketsela, Tirsit
Achaw Ayele, Asnakew
Kassie Netere, Adeladlew
Getnet Mersha, Amanual
Befekadu Abebe, Tamrat
Melaku Gebresillassie, Begashaw
Getachew Tegegn, Henok
Asfaw Erku, Daniel
author_facet Belachew, Sewunet Admasu
Tilahun, Fasil
Ketsela, Tirsit
Achaw Ayele, Asnakew
Kassie Netere, Adeladlew
Getnet Mersha, Amanual
Befekadu Abebe, Tamrat
Melaku Gebresillassie, Begashaw
Getachew Tegegn, Henok
Asfaw Erku, Daniel
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description BACKGROUND: When compared to systemic administration, if used correctly inhalers deliver a smaller enough percent of the drug right to the site of action in the lungs, with a faster onset of effect and with reduced systemic availability that minimizes adverse effects. However, the health professionals' and patients' use of metered dose inhaler is poor. OBJECTIVE: This study was aimed to explore community pharmacy professionals' (pharmacists' and druggists') competency on metered dose inhaler (MDI) technique. METHOD: A cross sectional study was employed on pharmacy professionals working in community drug retail outlets in Gondar town, northwest Ethiopia from March to May 2017. Evaluation tool was originally taken and adapted from the National Asthma Education and Prevention Programmes of America (NAEPP) step criteria for the demonstration of a metered dose inhaler to score the knowledge/proficiency of using the inhaler. RESULT: Among 70 community pharmacy professionals approached, 62 (32 pharmacists and 30 druggists/Pharmacy technicians) completed the survey with a response rate of 85.6%. Only three (4.8%) respondents were competent by demonstrating the vital steps correctly. Overall, only 13 participants got score seven or above, but most of them had missed the essential steps which included steps 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 or 8. There was a significant difference (P = 0.015) in competency of demonstrating adequate inhalational technique among respondents who took training on basic inhalational techniques and who did not. CONCLUSION: This study shown that, community pharmacy professionals' competency of MDI technique was very poor. So as to better incorporate community pharmacies into future asthma illness management and optimize the contribution of pharmacists, interventions would emphasis to improve the total competence of community pharmacy professionals through establishing and providing regular educational programs.
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spelling pubmed-57035442017-12-08 Competence in metered dose inhaler technique among community pharmacy professionals in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia: Knowledge and skill gap analysis Belachew, Sewunet Admasu Tilahun, Fasil Ketsela, Tirsit Achaw Ayele, Asnakew Kassie Netere, Adeladlew Getnet Mersha, Amanual Befekadu Abebe, Tamrat Melaku Gebresillassie, Begashaw Getachew Tegegn, Henok Asfaw Erku, Daniel PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: When compared to systemic administration, if used correctly inhalers deliver a smaller enough percent of the drug right to the site of action in the lungs, with a faster onset of effect and with reduced systemic availability that minimizes adverse effects. However, the health professionals' and patients' use of metered dose inhaler is poor. OBJECTIVE: This study was aimed to explore community pharmacy professionals' (pharmacists' and druggists') competency on metered dose inhaler (MDI) technique. METHOD: A cross sectional study was employed on pharmacy professionals working in community drug retail outlets in Gondar town, northwest Ethiopia from March to May 2017. Evaluation tool was originally taken and adapted from the National Asthma Education and Prevention Programmes of America (NAEPP) step criteria for the demonstration of a metered dose inhaler to score the knowledge/proficiency of using the inhaler. RESULT: Among 70 community pharmacy professionals approached, 62 (32 pharmacists and 30 druggists/Pharmacy technicians) completed the survey with a response rate of 85.6%. Only three (4.8%) respondents were competent by demonstrating the vital steps correctly. Overall, only 13 participants got score seven or above, but most of them had missed the essential steps which included steps 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 or 8. There was a significant difference (P = 0.015) in competency of demonstrating adequate inhalational technique among respondents who took training on basic inhalational techniques and who did not. CONCLUSION: This study shown that, community pharmacy professionals' competency of MDI technique was very poor. So as to better incorporate community pharmacies into future asthma illness management and optimize the contribution of pharmacists, interventions would emphasis to improve the total competence of community pharmacy professionals through establishing and providing regular educational programs. Public Library of Science 2017-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5703544/ /pubmed/29176836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188360 Text en © 2017 Belachew et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Belachew, Sewunet Admasu
Tilahun, Fasil
Ketsela, Tirsit
Achaw Ayele, Asnakew
Kassie Netere, Adeladlew
Getnet Mersha, Amanual
Befekadu Abebe, Tamrat
Melaku Gebresillassie, Begashaw
Getachew Tegegn, Henok
Asfaw Erku, Daniel
Competence in metered dose inhaler technique among community pharmacy professionals in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia: Knowledge and skill gap analysis
title Competence in metered dose inhaler technique among community pharmacy professionals in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia: Knowledge and skill gap analysis
title_full Competence in metered dose inhaler technique among community pharmacy professionals in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia: Knowledge and skill gap analysis
title_fullStr Competence in metered dose inhaler technique among community pharmacy professionals in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia: Knowledge and skill gap analysis
title_full_unstemmed Competence in metered dose inhaler technique among community pharmacy professionals in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia: Knowledge and skill gap analysis
title_short Competence in metered dose inhaler technique among community pharmacy professionals in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia: Knowledge and skill gap analysis
title_sort competence in metered dose inhaler technique among community pharmacy professionals in gondar town, northwest ethiopia: knowledge and skill gap analysis
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5703544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29176836
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188360
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