Simegn Wudneh, Weldegerima Berhanemeskel, Endeshaw Alem, Sisay Gashaw, Mohammed Abdulwase, Wondimsigegn Dawit, Dagne Henok
Department of Social and Administrative Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Gondar, Gondar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Gondar, Gondar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.
Risk Manag Healthc Policy. 2021 Oct 2;14:4127-4139. doi: 10.2147/RMHP.S328328. eCollection 2021.
The objective of this study was to assess the attitude and perception of community pharmacy professionals' towards ethical issues.
We have undertaken a cross-sectional study among community pharmacy professionals in three selected towns (Gondar, Bahir Dar, and Debra Markos) of Amhara region in Ethiopia from February to March 2020. All community pharmacy professionals who were giving services during the data collection period were the study population. We used a pretested, semi-structured questionnaire developed from a review of previous study. Epi-info 7.1 was used for data entry, and SPSS version 20 was used for data analysis. Logistic regression was done, and a variable with a p-value < 0.05 with 95% confidence interval was considered to be associated with outcome variable.
A total of 305 community pharmacy professionals participated in the study with a response rate of 95.3%. About 252 (82.6%) of respondents received education regarding professional ethics. Majority (89.8%) of the participants had ever accessed ethical information at their work site. Only 145 (47.5%) participants had ever recorded ethical issues in their working site. The most common reasons that obstruct to explain ethical issues to customers were shortage of time (85.9%), unavailability of reliable resources (40.0%), and poor ethical knowledge (37.7%). The reporting rate of respondents is less than 50% for most ethical scenarios. Sex, age, educational status, work experience, number of customers per day, working site, information about ethics, and training about ethics were observed to have a significant association with attitude and perception of community pharmacy professionals towards ethical issues.
Community pharmacy professionals had poor attitude and perception towards ethical issues. Interventions should be devised to uphold ethical awareness of community pharmacy professionals. A large-scale study is also recommended.
本研究的目的是评估社区药房专业人员对伦理问题的态度和认知。
2020年2月至3月，我们在埃塞俄比亚阿姆哈拉地区三个选定城镇（贡德尔、巴赫达尔和德布拉·马尔科斯）的社区药房专业人员中进行了一项横断面研究。在数据收集期间提供服务的所有社区药房专业人员均为研究对象。我们使用了一份根据以往研究综述制定的经过预测试的半结构化问卷。使用Epi-info 7.1进行数据录入，使用SPSS 20版进行数据分析。进行了逻辑回归分析，p值<0.05且95%置信区间的变量被认为与结果变量相关。
共有305名社区药房专业人员参与了研究，回复率为95.3%。约252名（82.6%）受访者接受过职业道德教育。大多数（89.8%）参与者曾在工作场所获取过伦理信息。只有145名（47.5%）参与者曾在工作场所记录过伦理问题。阻碍向客户解释伦理问题的最常见原因是时间不足（85.9%）、缺乏可靠资源（40.0%）和伦理知识不足（37.7%）。在大多数伦理场景中，受访者的报告率低于50%。观察到性别、年龄、教育程度、工作经验、每日客户数量、工作场所、伦理信息和伦理培训与社区药房专业人员对伦理问题的态度和认知有显著关联。
社区药房专业人员对伦理问题的态度和认知较差。应制定干预措施以提高社区药房专业人员的伦理意识。还建议进行大规模研究。
