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The pharmacist’s role in managing and ameliorating childhood’s asthma care: a descriptive and transversal study about 104 pharmacists in the city of Rabat in Morocco

This work aims at enhancing the management of childhood asthma, with a focus on pharmacists in particular, by evaluating their knowledge of childhood asthma and assessing their attitude while they are providing asthma medicines. Consequently, it will look at the necessity of introducing training day...

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Autores principales: Iraqi, Bousayna, Jroundi, Imane, Iraqi, Amina, Mahraoui, Chafiq
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6195242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30364337
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.30.101.11593
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author Iraqi, Bousayna
Jroundi, Imane
Iraqi, Amina
Mahraoui, Chafiq
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Jroundi, Imane
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description This work aims at enhancing the management of childhood asthma, with a focus on pharmacists in particular, by evaluating their knowledge of childhood asthma and assessing their attitude while they are providing asthma medicines. Consequently, it will look at the necessity of introducing training days about childhood asthma for pharmacists. This is a transversal and descriptive study which lingered from August to October 2015. Data has been collected using a questionnaire that was self-administered to every surveyed pharmacist in the city of Rabat. The 104 pharmacists who replied to the questionnaire have an average general understanding about asthma and its treatment. Only a quarter of them managed an asthma crisis in their pharmacy before directing the child to the emergency. 50% of them do not know the difference between the basic asthma therapy and the asthma attack therapy. However, all of them recommended the parents to see a physician regarding their child’s asthma. 75% advise the systematic use of an asthma spacer with the inhaler. 87.5% of them give advice to parents regarding the good measures for environmental control, and 98% estimate that the therapeutic education is important in childhood asthma management. 88.5% among them are interested in training days about childhood asthma.This study shows the necessity of further pharmacists’ education about asthma and its management.
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spelling pubmed-61952422018-10-24 The pharmacist’s role in managing and ameliorating childhood’s asthma care: a descriptive and transversal study about 104 pharmacists in the city of Rabat in Morocco Iraqi, Bousayna Jroundi, Imane Iraqi, Amina Mahraoui, Chafiq Pan Afr Med J Letter to the Editors This work aims at enhancing the management of childhood asthma, with a focus on pharmacists in particular, by evaluating their knowledge of childhood asthma and assessing their attitude while they are providing asthma medicines. Consequently, it will look at the necessity of introducing training days about childhood asthma for pharmacists. This is a transversal and descriptive study which lingered from August to October 2015. Data has been collected using a questionnaire that was self-administered to every surveyed pharmacist in the city of Rabat. The 104 pharmacists who replied to the questionnaire have an average general understanding about asthma and its treatment. Only a quarter of them managed an asthma crisis in their pharmacy before directing the child to the emergency. 50% of them do not know the difference between the basic asthma therapy and the asthma attack therapy. However, all of them recommended the parents to see a physician regarding their child’s asthma. 75% advise the systematic use of an asthma spacer with the inhaler. 87.5% of them give advice to parents regarding the good measures for environmental control, and 98% estimate that the therapeutic education is important in childhood asthma management. 88.5% among them are interested in training days about childhood asthma.This study shows the necessity of further pharmacists’ education about asthma and its management. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2018-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6195242/ /pubmed/30364337 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.30.101.11593 Text en © Bousayna Iraqi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Letter to the Editors
Iraqi, Bousayna
Jroundi, Imane
Iraqi, Amina
Mahraoui, Chafiq
The pharmacist’s role in managing and ameliorating childhood’s asthma care: a descriptive and transversal study about 104 pharmacists in the city of Rabat in Morocco
title The pharmacist’s role in managing and ameliorating childhood’s asthma care: a descriptive and transversal study about 104 pharmacists in the city of Rabat in Morocco
title_full The pharmacist’s role in managing and ameliorating childhood’s asthma care: a descriptive and transversal study about 104 pharmacists in the city of Rabat in Morocco
title_fullStr The pharmacist’s role in managing and ameliorating childhood’s asthma care: a descriptive and transversal study about 104 pharmacists in the city of Rabat in Morocco
title_full_unstemmed The pharmacist’s role in managing and ameliorating childhood’s asthma care: a descriptive and transversal study about 104 pharmacists in the city of Rabat in Morocco
title_short The pharmacist’s role in managing and ameliorating childhood’s asthma care: a descriptive and transversal study about 104 pharmacists in the city of Rabat in Morocco
title_sort pharmacist’s role in managing and ameliorating childhood’s asthma care: a descriptive and transversal study about 104 pharmacists in the city of rabat in morocco
topic Letter to the Editors
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6195242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30364337
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.30.101.11593
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