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Self-reported and the actual involvement of community pharmacy professionals in the management of acute childhood diarrhea in Jazan Province, Saudi Arabia: Simulated patient visits and survey study
BACKGROUND: Acute childhood diarrhea is one of the most common causes of dehydration, and if severe, can potentially lead to death as well. The present study was aimed at evaluating the knowledge and attitudes of community pharmacy professionals towards the management of acute childhood diarrhea and...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9649352/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36387331 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsps.2022.07.012 |
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author | Merghani Ali, Eman Alqahtani, Saad S. Syed, Nabeel Kashan Banji, Otilia J.F. Mashragi, Yahia Ali Ageel, Mohammed Ali Hakami, Bashaer Abdullah Mathkur, Majed Hassan Solan, Renad Mehsen Khardali, Amani Tripathi, Rina |
author_facet | Merghani Ali, Eman Alqahtani, Saad S. Syed, Nabeel Kashan Banji, Otilia J.F. Mashragi, Yahia Ali Ageel, Mohammed Ali Hakami, Bashaer Abdullah Mathkur, Majed Hassan Solan, Renad Mehsen Khardali, Amani Tripathi, Rina |
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description | BACKGROUND: Acute childhood diarrhea is one of the most common causes of dehydration, and if severe, can potentially lead to death as well. The present study was aimed at evaluating the knowledge and attitudes of community pharmacy professionals towards the management of acute childhood diarrhea and comparing them with their actual practices in Jazan Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (K.S.A). METHODS: Simulated patient visits and a cross-sectional survey making use of a 27-item self-report questionnaire were conducted amongst a sample of 303 community pharmacy professionals (51.2 % male and 48.8 % female) with an age range of 25–56 years, between August 1 and December 1, 2021, in Jazan Province, Saudi Arabia. Convenience sampling technique was used for the recruitment of the participants. RESULTS: Significant positive correlations were seen between knowledge score (self-report survey) and practice score (simulated patient visit) regarding patients’ history taking (r = 0.65; p < 0.01), drug recommendations (r = 0.71; p < 0.01) and providing information regarding food and fluid intake (r = 0.44; p < 0.01). The alpha coefficients for all the items of the survey instrument were noted to be greater than (or) equal to the 0.70 threshold for almost all sections, hence indicating good reliability and internal consistency of the developed scale. CONCLUSION: In the present study, even though we observed improved participants’ performance during the self report survey, their performance level greatly dropped in actual practice. This warrants for a need for educational programs to improve their actual dispensing practices. The present study has also shown simulated patient visits to be a reliable, simple and a robust method of assessing the actual dispensing practices of community pharmacy professionals. |
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spelling | pubmed-96493522022-11-15 Self-reported and the actual involvement of community pharmacy professionals in the management of acute childhood diarrhea in Jazan Province, Saudi Arabia: Simulated patient visits and survey study Merghani Ali, Eman Alqahtani, Saad S. Syed, Nabeel Kashan Banji, Otilia J.F. Mashragi, Yahia Ali Ageel, Mohammed Ali Hakami, Bashaer Abdullah Mathkur, Majed Hassan Solan, Renad Mehsen Khardali, Amani Tripathi, Rina Saudi Pharm J Original Article BACKGROUND: Acute childhood diarrhea is one of the most common causes of dehydration, and if severe, can potentially lead to death as well. The present study was aimed at evaluating the knowledge and attitudes of community pharmacy professionals towards the management of acute childhood diarrhea and comparing them with their actual practices in Jazan Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (K.S.A). METHODS: Simulated patient visits and a cross-sectional survey making use of a 27-item self-report questionnaire were conducted amongst a sample of 303 community pharmacy professionals (51.2 % male and 48.8 % female) with an age range of 25–56 years, between August 1 and December 1, 2021, in Jazan Province, Saudi Arabia. Convenience sampling technique was used for the recruitment of the participants. RESULTS: Significant positive correlations were seen between knowledge score (self-report survey) and practice score (simulated patient visit) regarding patients’ history taking (r = 0.65; p < 0.01), drug recommendations (r = 0.71; p < 0.01) and providing information regarding food and fluid intake (r = 0.44; p < 0.01). The alpha coefficients for all the items of the survey instrument were noted to be greater than (or) equal to the 0.70 threshold for almost all sections, hence indicating good reliability and internal consistency of the developed scale. CONCLUSION: In the present study, even though we observed improved participants’ performance during the self report survey, their performance level greatly dropped in actual practice. This warrants for a need for educational programs to improve their actual dispensing practices. The present study has also shown simulated patient visits to be a reliable, simple and a robust method of assessing the actual dispensing practices of community pharmacy professionals. Elsevier 2022-10 2022-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9649352/ /pubmed/36387331 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsps.2022.07.012 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Original Article Merghani Ali, Eman Alqahtani, Saad S. Syed, Nabeel Kashan Banji, Otilia J.F. Mashragi, Yahia Ali Ageel, Mohammed Ali Hakami, Bashaer Abdullah Mathkur, Majed Hassan Solan, Renad Mehsen Khardali, Amani Tripathi, Rina Self-reported and the actual involvement of community pharmacy professionals in the management of acute childhood diarrhea in Jazan Province, Saudi Arabia: Simulated patient visits and survey study |
title | Self-reported and the actual involvement of community pharmacy professionals in the management of acute childhood diarrhea in Jazan Province, Saudi Arabia: Simulated patient visits and survey study |
title_full | Self-reported and the actual involvement of community pharmacy professionals in the management of acute childhood diarrhea in Jazan Province, Saudi Arabia: Simulated patient visits and survey study |
title_fullStr | Self-reported and the actual involvement of community pharmacy professionals in the management of acute childhood diarrhea in Jazan Province, Saudi Arabia: Simulated patient visits and survey study |
title_full_unstemmed | Self-reported and the actual involvement of community pharmacy professionals in the management of acute childhood diarrhea in Jazan Province, Saudi Arabia: Simulated patient visits and survey study |
title_short | Self-reported and the actual involvement of community pharmacy professionals in the management of acute childhood diarrhea in Jazan Province, Saudi Arabia: Simulated patient visits and survey study |
title_sort | self-reported and the actual involvement of community pharmacy professionals in the management of acute childhood diarrhea in jazan province, saudi arabia: simulated patient visits and survey study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9649352/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36387331 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsps.2022.07.012 |
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