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Community Pharmacists' Knowledge, Attitude and Practices towards

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Background: As a result of the wide antibiotic abuse in many communities all over, bacterial resistance against different antibiotic formulas has aroused. It is an actual matter of importance because it touches up the most crucial principles of pharmacy and devoted work for medicine field in general.
 Objectives: We have come to the aim of assessing the knowledge, attitude, and practice of pharmacists concerning dispensing antibiotics without prescription. We are discussing the ethical and legal elements contributing in the judgment of the final results and decision about the matter.
Material and methods: We are using the questionnaire test method to assess the knowledge and measure the attitude and practice of those pharmacists in marks and degrees.
Results: the pharmacists working in community pharmacies lack the knowledge of the legality of DAwD, though they know the greatly bad influence of it over the resistivity in bacteria and viruses. That of course goes along with the knowledge degree of the patients themselves
Conclusion: We have come to a conclusion that most of the pharmacists had no prior knowledge of the illegality of dispensing antibiotics without prescription "DAwP". And of course, we recommend to enhance the awareness and knowledge of them by raising educational training programs.
 

DOI

10.12816/0044556

Keywords

Pharmacists, KAP, Bacterial resistance, DAwP, Knowledge, Attitude, Practice

Authors

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Fakhir Thamir

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Alotaibi

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Security Forces Hospital of Makkah

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Attiah Abdullrhman

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Khobrani

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Security Forces Hospital of Makkah

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Mesfer Safar

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Almalki

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Security Forces Hospital of Makkah

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Hassan Abdullah

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Aljabri

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Alnahdi Medical Group

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Volume

70

Article Issue

7

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2081

Issue Date

2018-01-01

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2018-08-10

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2018-01-01

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1,234

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1,237

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1687-2002

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2090-7125

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606

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The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine

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https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/

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Community Pharmacists' Knowledge, Attitude and Practices towards

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22 Jan 2023