Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Pharmacists towards Drug Interactions in  Saudi Arabia

Imam, Mohamed S.; Abdel-Sattar, Randa M.; AlOmeir, Othman; Mahzari, Hussain A.; Alhamdhi, Sami M.; Alhazmi, Tariq Y.; Hassani, Khalid Y.; Alamri, Amr S.; Alsubaihi, Ali I.; Al-Otaibi, Fahad M.

doi:10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i46b32973

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“…In the current study, there was a low frequency of identification in both scenarios; most of the participated pharmacists had inadequate knowledge about the DDIs presented in the two scenarios. These results were similar to what found in a study from Saudi Arabia, 15 which concluded that pharmacists had inadequate knowledge about DDIs.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…These findings are consistent with a Lebanese study, where 69% of the pharmacists inform the patient/or call the prescriber. 45 A higher result was observed in another study, 15 where 98.1% of pharmacists used to contact the prescribers upon detecting DDIs before dispensing the prescription. Moreover, in a study conducted in Swiss community pharmacies, direct contact with the prescriber was involved in more than one-third of the pharmacists’ interventions to solve drug-related problems, including DDI.…”

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confidence: 85%

“… 14 Another study from Saudi Arabia concluded that community pharmacists’ knowledge about DDIs was inadequate. 15 Drug interactions were also discussed in studies that evaluated the dispensing practice. In a study that assessed the dispensing practice in the community pharmacies, almost 95% of the dispensers provided a drug that interacted with the patient prescribed medicine.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Practice of the Community Pharmacists in Managing Potential Drug-Drug Interactions: A Simulated Patient Visits

Hamadouk¹,

Albashair²,

Mohammed³

et al. 2022

IPRP

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Background Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) can cause treatment failure and serious adverse drug reactions, leading to morbidity and mortality. Due to their significant effects on the patient’s health, community pharmacists (CPs) competence in detecting and preventing these interactions is essential to provide optimal health services. Thus, this study aimed to explore the performance of the CPs in situations involving the presence of potential DDIs. Methods A cross-sectional, simulated patient study was conducted in 235 community pharmacies in the Khartoum locality. Two scenarios were used to evaluate the performance of the CPs. Ten final year B. Pharm. students were selected to act as simulated patients (SPs); they were trained for two weeks to familiarize their roles. All encounters were documented immediately after leaving the pharmacy by the SPs in the data collection form. Results All planned SPs visits were completed, resulting in 470 visits. None of the CPs asked about the patients’ medication history in both scenarios. After the SPs provided information about the drug used currently by the patient, 13.6% and 23.4% of the CPs had identified the potential DDIs in scenario 1 and scenario 2, respectively. In scenario 1, 59.4% distinguished the interaction of simvastatin with both drugs, while, in scenario 2, 74.5% recognized the interaction of warfarin with both drugs. In identifying DDIs, around half of the CPs were dependent on their knowledge or using drug interaction checker programs. The most common intervention made by the CPs was referring the patient to the prescriber (56.3% CPs in scenario 1 and 60% CPs in scenario 2). Conclusion CPs practice in identifying and managing potential DDIs was poor. The current CPs practices need substantial improvement. Therefore, professional education and the use of software programs in community pharmacies should be encouraged.

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The Practice of the Community Pharmacists in Managing Potential Drug-Drug Interactions: A Simulated Patient Visits

Hamadouk¹,

Albashair²,

Mohammed³

et al. 2022

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“…In light of these findings, it is seen that the participants' level of knowledge about DDIs is low. This situation is paralel to the literature evaluating pharmacists' knowledge of DDIs [11,14].…”

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Knowledge and behavior of community pharmacists towards detecting drug-drug interactions

OĞUZ¹,

Arslan

2023

Eur J Life Sci

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Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are preventable medication errors that can cause severe adverse effects for patients, which often involve more than one mechanism. Healthcare practitioners, especially community pharmacists, must know and manage potentially significant DDIs to provide patient safety. This paper mainly aims to determine the knowledge level of community pharmacists about DDIs and to evaluate the behavior of community pharmacists in detecting DDIs. For this aim, a face-to-face questionnaire, including a knowledge assessment test containing 20 drug pairs and ten behavior statements related to detecting DDIs, was applied to community pharmacists. Seventy-three pharmacists participated in the study. The study’s findings show that the knowledge level of community pharmacists, who are the closest health consultants, about DDIs is relatively low. In addition, responses were found to be moderate in detecting drug interactions.Although statistically significant and positive effects of vocational training on the knowledge level and behaviors of pharmacists were determined, it was revealed that education levels did not have a significant effect. In this regard, it is essential to improve community pharmacists’ DDI knowledge level through vocational training programs and encourage their interaction-detecting behavior to improve patient outcomes and patient safety.

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Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Pharmacists towards Drug Interactions in Saudi Arabia

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