Knowledge and Attitudes Among Hospital Pharmacists About COVID-19

Kara, Emre; Demirkan, Kutay; Ünal, Serhat

doi:10.4274/tjps.galenos.2020.72325

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“…The majority of our study respondents showed appropriate knowledge regarding COVID-19 methods of transmission, preventive measures, and medications used. This finding is consistent with many studies that surveyed hospital pharmacists in different countries (Turkey, Vietnam, and Pakistan) and showed adequate knowledge about COVID-19 [ 32 – 34 ].…”

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confidence: 92%

“…The questionnaire was developed in English language and consisted of 78 questions using a combination of Likert scales and multiple choice questions. It is composed of the following sections: sociodemographic characteristics (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14), knowledge (15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27), attitude (28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34), practice , and pandemic planning efforts and preparedness (58-78). It also included a free-text section at the end where the participant could add any suggestion or comment.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Assessing knowledge, attitude, practice, and preparedness of hospital pharmacists in Lebanon towards COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

Zeenny

Ramia

Akiki

et al. 2020

J of Pharm Policy and Pract

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Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lebanese government has taken the proactive anticipatory measure to minimize the infection rates. Despite the pivotal role of the pharmacists working in hospital settings, hospital pharmacists have not been engaged in the emergency preparedness for hospitals. The primary objective of this survey is to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of hospital pharmacists in Lebanon towards COVID-19 pandemic and explore the level of health emergency preparedness of Lebanese hospitals in response to this outbreak. Methods A standardized English-based, anonymous and online questionnaire was diffused via social media platforms to all Lebanese hospital pharmacists. The questionnaire consisted of 78 questions related to sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge-based, attitude-based, practice questions, and pandemic preparedness. Descriptive statistical analysis was used to summarize data. Results A total of 81 questionnaires were completed; the participants were able to know > 90% of the knowledge-based questions regarding COVID-19. Most of the respondents were concerned about getting infected and their families due to their professional exposure. Similarly, around 67% were following the safety recommendations. Most of the participants agreed that they are facing shortages, rising prices, and delays in supply of masks and sanitizers. In terms of COVID-19 readiness, about 50% of hospitals have taken practical steps. Conclusions Our findings revealed an appropriate level of knowledge and good practice towards COVID-19, among the respondents from Lebanese hospitals. National organizations may benefit in utilizing the expertise of the hospital pharmacists to be able to minimize/avoid future waves of COVID-19 if it emerges.

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confidence: 92%

Section: Survey Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing knowledge, attitude, practice, and preparedness of hospital pharmacists in Lebanon towards COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

Zeenny

Ramia

Akiki

et al. 2020

J of Pharm Policy and Pract

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“…The finding suggests that intervention via health education can be more efficient if it targets specific demographic groups, such as, the COVID-19 knowledge may be markedly increased if the health education programs are certainly designed for females and less educated peoples [12,18]. .001) of good attitude which is in line with a Turkish study which also reported that age was a factor that influenced the participants' attitudes towards COVID-19 infection [17]. On contrary, a study conducted in China did not reveal any association of age, gender, and experience with attitude level [19].…”

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confidence: 76%

“…Pharmacists play a pivotal role in the provision of drug-related information to patients, caregivers, and healthcare practitioners (HCPs) [17]. The FIP emphasizes the active role of pharmacists in the community and hospital setups in preventing the spread of COVID-19 [8].…”

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Knowledge, attitude, and practices of Community pharmacists about COVID-19: A cross-sectional survey in two provinces of Pakistan

Muhammad

Saqlain

Hamdard

et al. 2020

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Amidst to current Coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the international pharmaceutical federation stated that pharmacists being a part of the healthcare system had a crucial role in the management cycle of COVID-19 outbreak. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of community pharmacists, to snapshot their current preparedness and awareness regarding COVID-19. An online survey was conducted among a sample of 393 community pharmacists from two provinces; Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan during a period of strict lockdown (10th to 30th April 2020). A validated (Cronbach alpha= 0.077) self-administered questionnaire comprised of five sections (Demographics, source of information, knowledge, attitude, and practice) was used for data collection. Logistic regression was applied to find potential factors associated with good knowledge, attitude, and practice by using SPSS version 21. Of total 393 participants, 71.5% (n=281) had good knowledge, 44% (n=175) had positive attitude and 57.3% (n=225) had good practice regarding COVID-19. Social media (45.29%, n=178) was reported as the main source to seek information regarding COVID-19. Results revealed that the age of ≥26 years, Ph.D. degree level, and good knowledge were the substantial determinants (P<0.05) of a good attitude. Similarly, community pharmacist who had an experience of >5 years, hold a Ph.D. degree, good knowledge and good attitude had higher odds of good practice compared to reference categories (P<0.05). The findings demonstrated that the majority of community pharmacists had good knowledge, but had a poor attitude and practice towards the COVID-19. This study also highlighted the disparity in some aspects of knowledge, attitude, and practice that must be addressed in future educational, awareness, and counselling programs.

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COBERT: COVID-19 Question Answering System Using BERT

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In the current situation of worldwide pandemic COVID-19, which has infected 62.5 Million people and caused nearly 1.46 Million deaths worldwide as of Nov 2020. The profoundly powerful and quickly advancing circumstance with COVID-19 has made it hard to get precise, on-request latest data with respect to the virus. Especially, the frontline workers of the battle medical services experts, policymakers, clinical scientists, and so on will require expert specific methods to stay aware of this literature for getting scientific knowledge of the latest research findings. The risks are most certainly not trivial, as decisions made on fallacious, answers may endanger trust or general well being and security of the public. But, with thousands of research papers being dispensed on the topic, making it more difficult to keep track of the latest research. Taking these challenges into account we have proposed COBERT: a retriever-reader dual algorithmic system that answers the complex queries by searching a document of 59K corona virus-related literature made accessible through the Coronavirus Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19). The retriever is composed of a TF-IDF vectorizer capturing the top 500 documents with optimal scores. The reader which is pre-trained Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) on SQuAD 1.1 dev dataset built on top of the HuggingFace BERT transformers, refines the sentences from the filtered documents, which are then passed into ranker which compares the logits scores to produce a short answer, title of the paper and source article of extraction. The proposed DistilBERT version has outperformed previous pre-trained models obtaining an Exact Match(EM)/F1 score of 80.6/87.3 respectively.

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Knowledge and Attitudes Among Hospital Pharmacists About COVID-19

Cited by 28 publications

References 15 publications

Assessing knowledge, attitude, practice, and preparedness of hospital pharmacists in Lebanon towards COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

Assessing knowledge, attitude, practice, and preparedness of hospital pharmacists in Lebanon towards COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

Knowledge, attitude, and practices of Community pharmacists about COVID-19: A cross-sectional survey in two provinces of Pakistan

COBERT: COVID-19 Question Answering System Using BERT

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