The Development and Testing of a Methodology to Measure the Attitudes of Pharmacists toward Clinical Pharmacy

Attitudes of pharmacists and physicians to antibiotic policies in hospitals

“…Participants were asked to circle the extent to which they agreed or disagreed with each statement. A six‐point Likert scale was used ranging from Strongly Agree (1) to Strongly Disagree (5) with a Neutral (3) category in the middle and a Don't Know category as (6).…”

“…However, implementation alone is not sufficient to improve the quality of antibiotic use (2). Herman & Rodowskas (3) have suggested that programs meant to improve the quality of patient care and thus drug use, can succeed only if practitioners adopt a positive attitude towards such programs. It has also been reported that attitude was the strongest predictor of whether or not pharmacists performed some clinical pharmacy activities (4).…”

“…Several studies have suggested that practitioners generally have a positive attitude towards antibiotic policies and drug use interventions because they are interested in improving the quality of drug use (3, 5, 6). Evidence from drug usage review (DUR) studies has shown that non‐compliance with antibiotic policies exists to a significant degree.…”