Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Community Pharmacists on Medication Safety during Pregnancy: A Cross-sectional Study

Abstract

Background: Safe medication use during pregnancy requires a great understanding of the benefits and risks associated upon use of the drug. Community Pharmacists (CPs) are the most accessible health care professionals for the pregnant women to get safety information about drugs. Evaluation of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAP) of community pharmacists on medication safety during pregnancy. Methods: A crosssectional study was conducted among community pharmacists of various community pharmacies located in Anantapur district. A total of 403 CPs were enrolled and subjected for interview by using pre-validated selfadministered KAP questionnaire on medication safety during pregnancy. Descriptive statistics were used to represent the socio-demographic characteristics and KAP levels. Chi-square test was used to associate demographic profile with KAP levels. Results: A total of 403 community Pharmacists (CPs) were enrolled in the study. Majority of the pharmacists are males (345; 85.6%), residing in semi-urban area (184; 45.6%), possess diploma in pharmacy (232; 57.5%) and having more than 10 years' of experience. Among 403 CPs, only 21 (5.2%) had good knowledge, 380 (94.2%) had positive attitude and 119 (29.5%) have safe practice towards medication safety during pregnancy. Respondent's age, qualification and experience were significantly associated with good knowledge and safe practices. Conclusion: Community pharmacists are having a positive attitude and some knowledge about safe medication use in pregnant women. Still, there is a wide gap in knowledge levels and practices of CPs towards safe medication use in pregnant women. This gap can be fulfilled by providing focused educational intervention to all CPs.This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

Pengetahuan, Sikap dan Praktik Apoteker di Komunitas tentang Keamanan Pengobatan pada Ibu Hamil

“…Pada hasil penelitian diketahui sebagian besar yaitu lebih 80% apoteker memiliki sikap yang baik. Hal ini dikarenakan apoteker percaya bahwa keamanan pengobatan pada kehamilan merupakan salah satu perhatian utama selama kehamilan (Goruntla et al, 2019). Selain itu apoteker mengetahui bahwa pemberian pengobatan yang tepat dan aman pada pasien merupakan peran apoteker, dan tertera pada Permenkes tentang standar pelayanan kefarmasian di fasilitas kesehatan tingkat pertama (WHO, 2011).…”

Consumption of Acetaminophen During Pregnancy: A Survey on Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Lebanese Women

“…Some pregnant women take medication without su cient knowledge; a study carried out among 275 women in Nepal, showed that less than 50% of pregnant women, knew the indication or the possible side effects of prescribed drugs (Devkota et al 2017). In contrast, the safe use of drugs during pregnancy requires a good understanding of their bene ts and risks to the mother and fetus (Narayana et al 2019).…”

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Towards Oxytocin Storage Among Pharmacists in Rwanda

“…Despite the growing literature on the quality of oxytocin, hardly anything is known about stakeholders' awareness of the significance of having a consistent routine storage temperature for oxytocin or their standpoints of the quality of oxytocin, such as pharmacists who play major roles in the oxytocin supply chain [8].…”