The Effect of Demographic and Social Factors on the Decision-Making of Community Pharmacists in Ethical Dilemmas

OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study is to investigate the effect of demographic and social factors on the decision-making of community pharmacists when confronted with ethical dilemmas during their professional practice. METHODS: This was a questionnaire-based, cross-sectional study. A total of 10...

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Autores principales: Rajiah, Kingston, Venaktaraman, Rajesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6830021/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31728350
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jrpp.JRPP_19_15
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description OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study is to investigate the effect of demographic and social factors on the decision-making of community pharmacists when confronted with ethical dilemmas during their professional practice. METHODS: This was a questionnaire-based, cross-sectional study. A total of 1057 community pharmacists were approached. The final participants were 742. Independent-sample t-test and one-way analysis of variance were used to analyze the factors (age, gender, work experience, education qualification, number of pharmacists per pharmacy, and pharmacy location). FINDINGS: Older pharmacists, experienced pharmacists, and urban pharmacists have less ethical dilemma compared to the younger pharmacists, less work experience pharmacists, and rural pharmacists, respectively. CONCLUSION: Individual factors such as age, gender, work experience, and educational level and organizational factors such as the number of pharmacists in a pharmacy and location of pharmacy may influence the ethical dilemma of community pharmacists.
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spelling pubmed-68300212019-11-14 The Effect of Demographic and Social Factors on the Decision-Making of Community Pharmacists in Ethical Dilemmas Rajiah, Kingston Venaktaraman, Rajesh J Res Pharm Pract Brief Communication OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study is to investigate the effect of demographic and social factors on the decision-making of community pharmacists when confronted with ethical dilemmas during their professional practice. METHODS: This was a questionnaire-based, cross-sectional study. A total of 1057 community pharmacists were approached. The final participants were 742. Independent-sample t-test and one-way analysis of variance were used to analyze the factors (age, gender, work experience, education qualification, number of pharmacists per pharmacy, and pharmacy location). FINDINGS: Older pharmacists, experienced pharmacists, and urban pharmacists have less ethical dilemma compared to the younger pharmacists, less work experience pharmacists, and rural pharmacists, respectively. CONCLUSION: Individual factors such as age, gender, work experience, and educational level and organizational factors such as the number of pharmacists in a pharmacy and location of pharmacy may influence the ethical dilemma of community pharmacists. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6830021/ /pubmed/31728350 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jrpp.JRPP_19_15 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Research in Pharmacy Practice http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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