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Knowledge, attitude and practices of community pharmacists regarding COVID-19: A paper-based survey in Vietnam

OBJECTIVE: To survey the knowledge, attitude, and practices of Vietnamese pharmacists regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: This cross-sectional, paper-based study was conducted from June to August 2020. A validated questionnaire (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.84) was used to interview 1,023 pharmacists i...

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Huong Thi Thanh, Dinh, Dai Xuan, Nguyen, Van Minh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8321352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34324597
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255420
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Dinh, Dai Xuan
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description OBJECTIVE: To survey the knowledge, attitude, and practices of Vietnamese pharmacists regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: This cross-sectional, paper-based study was conducted from June to August 2020. A validated questionnaire (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.84) was used to interview 1,023 pharmacists in nine provinces of Vietnam. Analysis of covariance was employed to identify factors associated with the knowledge of pharmacists. The best model was chosen by using the Bayesian Model Averaging method in R software version 4.0.4. RESULTS: The mean knowledge score was 12.02 ± 1.64 (range: 6–15), which indicated that 93.4% of pharmacists had good knowledge of COVID-19. There was no difference in the average score between males and females (p > 0.05). The multivariate linear regression model revealed that the knowledge was significantly associated with pharmacists’ age, education level, and residence (p < 0.001). About attitude and practices, pharmacists daily sought and updated information on the COVID-19 pandemic through mass media and the internet (social network and online newspapers). Nearly 48% of them conceded that they communicated with customers when at least one person did not wear a face mask at the time of the COVID-19 outbreak. At medicine outlets, many measures were applied to protect pharmacists and customers, such as equipping pharmacists with face masks and hand sanitizers (95.0%), using glass shields (83.0%), and maintaining at least one-meter distance between two people (85.2%). CONCLUSION: The pharmacists’ knowledge of COVID-19 transmission, symptoms, and prevention was good. Many useful measures against the spread of this perilous virus were applied in medicine outlets. However, pharmacists should restrict forgetting to wear face masks in communication with medicine purchasers. The government and health agencies should have practical remedies to reduce the significant differences in the COVID-19 knowledge of pharmacists among provinces and education-level groups.
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spelling pubmed-83213522021-07-31 Knowledge, attitude and practices of community pharmacists regarding COVID-19: A paper-based survey in Vietnam Nguyen, Huong Thi Thanh Dinh, Dai Xuan Nguyen, Van Minh PLoS One Research Article OBJECTIVE: To survey the knowledge, attitude, and practices of Vietnamese pharmacists regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: This cross-sectional, paper-based study was conducted from June to August 2020. A validated questionnaire (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.84) was used to interview 1,023 pharmacists in nine provinces of Vietnam. Analysis of covariance was employed to identify factors associated with the knowledge of pharmacists. The best model was chosen by using the Bayesian Model Averaging method in R software version 4.0.4. RESULTS: The mean knowledge score was 12.02 ± 1.64 (range: 6–15), which indicated that 93.4% of pharmacists had good knowledge of COVID-19. There was no difference in the average score between males and females (p > 0.05). The multivariate linear regression model revealed that the knowledge was significantly associated with pharmacists’ age, education level, and residence (p < 0.001). About attitude and practices, pharmacists daily sought and updated information on the COVID-19 pandemic through mass media and the internet (social network and online newspapers). Nearly 48% of them conceded that they communicated with customers when at least one person did not wear a face mask at the time of the COVID-19 outbreak. At medicine outlets, many measures were applied to protect pharmacists and customers, such as equipping pharmacists with face masks and hand sanitizers (95.0%), using glass shields (83.0%), and maintaining at least one-meter distance between two people (85.2%). CONCLUSION: The pharmacists’ knowledge of COVID-19 transmission, symptoms, and prevention was good. Many useful measures against the spread of this perilous virus were applied in medicine outlets. However, pharmacists should restrict forgetting to wear face masks in communication with medicine purchasers. The government and health agencies should have practical remedies to reduce the significant differences in the COVID-19 knowledge of pharmacists among provinces and education-level groups. Public Library of Science 2021-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8321352/ /pubmed/34324597 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255420 Text en © 2021 Nguyen et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://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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Nguyen, Van Minh
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title_full Knowledge, attitude and practices of community pharmacists regarding COVID-19: A paper-based survey in Vietnam
title_fullStr Knowledge, attitude and practices of community pharmacists regarding COVID-19: A paper-based survey in Vietnam
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge, attitude and practices of community pharmacists regarding COVID-19: A paper-based survey in Vietnam
title_short Knowledge, attitude and practices of community pharmacists regarding COVID-19: A paper-based survey in Vietnam
title_sort knowledge, attitude and practices of community pharmacists regarding covid-19: a paper-based survey in vietnam
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8321352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34324597
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255420
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