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Pharmacists’ readiness to deal with the coronavirus pandemic: Assessing awareness and perception of roles
BACKGROUND: The 2019 Coronavirus infection (COVID-19) caused by a novel strain of coronavirus was detected in China in December 2019, and declared a public health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020. Community pharmacists have an important role in supporting the local health emerg...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7194707/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32360181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.04.020 |
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author | Basheti, Iman A. Nassar, Razan Barakat, Muna Alqudah, Rajaa Abufarha, Rana Mukattash, Tareq L. Saini, Bandana |
author_facet | Basheti, Iman A. Nassar, Razan Barakat, Muna Alqudah, Rajaa Abufarha, Rana Mukattash, Tareq L. Saini, Bandana |
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description | BACKGROUND: The 2019 Coronavirus infection (COVID-19) caused by a novel strain of coronavirus was detected in China in December 2019, and declared a public health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020. Community pharmacists have an important role in supporting the local health emergency preparedness and response arrangements. OBJECTIVES: To investigate pharmacists and pharmacy students’ awareness and source of their information regard the management of the coronavirus pandemic, and their perspective of their role during this emergent situation. METHODS: This descriptive cross-sectional online survey study was conducted in Jordan during the COVID-19 outbreak (from 15 to 30 March 2020). A validated online questionnaire addressing participants' current awareness about epidemics/pandemics and COVID-19, source of information and their perspectives of their role. Data were analyzed using statistical package for social science (SPSS). RESULTS: Participants (n = 726) had a mean age of 26.9 (8.0) years with 71.9% females. Pharmacy students made 35.3% of the sample while the rest were pharmacists. Only 54.3% of participants believed that they got enough education about epidemics/pandemics, and 94.6% of them follow on the latest coronavirus updates on treatments, and that is mainly from the media (59.5%) followed by the World Health Organization reports (58.7%) and then the published researches (57%). Awareness score (out of 20) of pharmacists (n = 470) was significantly higher (p < 0.001) than that of students (n = 256). Better Awareness scores were also associated with higher age of participants, graduating from a public versus a private university, and attending more educational workshops. CONCLUSION: The majority of pharmacists and pharmacy students reported that they have a major role in the management of epidemics/pandemics through the community pharmacies but the majority follow on the latest coronavirus updates from the media. This fact rings bills considering the numerous conflicting messages publicized during the pandemic through the media. |
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spelling | pubmed-71947072020-05-02 Pharmacists’ readiness to deal with the coronavirus pandemic: Assessing awareness and perception of roles Basheti, Iman A. Nassar, Razan Barakat, Muna Alqudah, Rajaa Abufarha, Rana Mukattash, Tareq L. Saini, Bandana Res Social Adm Pharm Article BACKGROUND: The 2019 Coronavirus infection (COVID-19) caused by a novel strain of coronavirus was detected in China in December 2019, and declared a public health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020. Community pharmacists have an important role in supporting the local health emergency preparedness and response arrangements. OBJECTIVES: To investigate pharmacists and pharmacy students’ awareness and source of their information regard the management of the coronavirus pandemic, and their perspective of their role during this emergent situation. METHODS: This descriptive cross-sectional online survey study was conducted in Jordan during the COVID-19 outbreak (from 15 to 30 March 2020). A validated online questionnaire addressing participants' current awareness about epidemics/pandemics and COVID-19, source of information and their perspectives of their role. Data were analyzed using statistical package for social science (SPSS). RESULTS: Participants (n = 726) had a mean age of 26.9 (8.0) years with 71.9% females. Pharmacy students made 35.3% of the sample while the rest were pharmacists. Only 54.3% of participants believed that they got enough education about epidemics/pandemics, and 94.6% of them follow on the latest coronavirus updates on treatments, and that is mainly from the media (59.5%) followed by the World Health Organization reports (58.7%) and then the published researches (57%). Awareness score (out of 20) of pharmacists (n = 470) was significantly higher (p < 0.001) than that of students (n = 256). Better Awareness scores were also associated with higher age of participants, graduating from a public versus a private university, and attending more educational workshops. CONCLUSION: The majority of pharmacists and pharmacy students reported that they have a major role in the management of epidemics/pandemics through the community pharmacies but the majority follow on the latest coronavirus updates from the media. This fact rings bills considering the numerous conflicting messages publicized during the pandemic through the media. Elsevier Inc. 2021-03 2020-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7194707/ /pubmed/32360181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.04.020 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Basheti, Iman A. Nassar, Razan Barakat, Muna Alqudah, Rajaa Abufarha, Rana Mukattash, Tareq L. Saini, Bandana Pharmacists’ readiness to deal with the coronavirus pandemic: Assessing awareness and perception of roles |
title | Pharmacists’ readiness to deal with the coronavirus pandemic: Assessing awareness and perception of roles |
title_full | Pharmacists’ readiness to deal with the coronavirus pandemic: Assessing awareness and perception of roles |
title_fullStr | Pharmacists’ readiness to deal with the coronavirus pandemic: Assessing awareness and perception of roles |
title_full_unstemmed | Pharmacists’ readiness to deal with the coronavirus pandemic: Assessing awareness and perception of roles |
title_short | Pharmacists’ readiness to deal with the coronavirus pandemic: Assessing awareness and perception of roles |
title_sort | pharmacists’ readiness to deal with the coronavirus pandemic: assessing awareness and perception of roles |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7194707/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32360181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.04.020 |
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