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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards Infectious Diseases Related to Travel of Community Pharmacists in Italy

Pharmacists should be educated about travel medicine, since they could influence their own choices and those of the individuals they encounter. This study aims to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors towards infectious diseases related to travel among community pharmacists in Italy. T...

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Autores principales: Della Polla, Giorgia, Pelullo, Concetta Paola, Napolitano, Francesco, Lambiase, Chiara, De Simone, Caterina, Angelillo, Italo Francesco
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7143491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32213832
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17062147
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author Della Polla, Giorgia
Pelullo, Concetta Paola
Napolitano, Francesco
Lambiase, Chiara
De Simone, Caterina
Angelillo, Italo Francesco
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Pelullo, Concetta Paola
Napolitano, Francesco
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description Pharmacists should be educated about travel medicine, since they could influence their own choices and those of the individuals they encounter. This study aims to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors towards infectious diseases related to travel among community pharmacists in Italy. The data was collected from September 2018 to September 2019 using semi-structured telephone interviews. Only 1.8% answered correctly to all seven questions regarding the infectious diseases related to travel. Community pharmacists who had heard about travel medicine and those who had received information were more likely to have good knowledge. More than two-thirds of the respondents believed that it is important to provide information to the public about travel medicine. Pharmacists who worked a higher number of hours per week, were more knowledgeable about the more frequent infectious diseases related to travel, believed that travel medicine was a pharmacist competency, believed that they could give advice to the public, and had received information from scientific journals and educational activities were more likely to have this positive attitude. More than two-thirds often/always informed the public about the importance of having travel health center counseling. Pharmacists who had heard about travel medicine and those who believed that they could give advice to the public were more likely to inform. Interventions are needed to improve knowledge in order that community pharmacists can play an active role in counseling the public.
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spelling pubmed-71434912020-04-14 Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards Infectious Diseases Related to Travel of Community Pharmacists in Italy Della Polla, Giorgia Pelullo, Concetta Paola Napolitano, Francesco Lambiase, Chiara De Simone, Caterina Angelillo, Italo Francesco Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Pharmacists should be educated about travel medicine, since they could influence their own choices and those of the individuals they encounter. This study aims to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors towards infectious diseases related to travel among community pharmacists in Italy. The data was collected from September 2018 to September 2019 using semi-structured telephone interviews. Only 1.8% answered correctly to all seven questions regarding the infectious diseases related to travel. Community pharmacists who had heard about travel medicine and those who had received information were more likely to have good knowledge. More than two-thirds of the respondents believed that it is important to provide information to the public about travel medicine. Pharmacists who worked a higher number of hours per week, were more knowledgeable about the more frequent infectious diseases related to travel, believed that travel medicine was a pharmacist competency, believed that they could give advice to the public, and had received information from scientific journals and educational activities were more likely to have this positive attitude. More than two-thirds often/always informed the public about the importance of having travel health center counseling. Pharmacists who had heard about travel medicine and those who believed that they could give advice to the public were more likely to inform. Interventions are needed to improve knowledge in order that community pharmacists can play an active role in counseling the public. MDPI 2020-03-24 2020-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7143491/ /pubmed/32213832 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17062147 Text en © 2020 by the authors. 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 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards Infectious Diseases Related to Travel of Community Pharmacists in Italy
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title_short Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards Infectious Diseases Related to Travel of Community Pharmacists in Italy
title_sort knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards infectious diseases related to travel of community pharmacists in italy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7143491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32213832
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17062147
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