Barriers and facilitators to provision of written consumer medicines information among community pharmacists in Malaysia: a cross‐sectional study

Objectives This study examined the barriers and facilitators to the provision of consumer medication information leaflets (CMIL) by community pharmacists in Malaysia and assessed the relationship between the participants' characteristics and provision of CMIL. Methods This was a cross‐sectional...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of pharmaceutical health services research 2020-11, Vol.11 (4), p.419-422
Main Authors: Fatokun, Omotayo, Mooi, Xin Yi, Helweh, Osama, Rajagopal, Mogana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
barriers
community pharmacists
Consumer health information
consumers
Cross-sectional studies
facilitators
Malaysia
Pharmacists
Prescription drugs
written medicines information
Citations: Items that this one cites
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Objectives This study examined the barriers and facilitators to the provision of consumer medication information leaflets (CMIL) by community pharmacists in Malaysia and assessed the relationship between the participants' characteristics and provision of CMIL. Methods This was a cross‐sectional self‐administered questionnaire survey conducted among pharmacists working in randomly selected community pharmacies in the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, and the State of Selangor, Malaysia. Multiple response analysis was conducted to examine the barriers and facilitators. Chi‐square test was used to assess the relationship between the participants' characteristics and provision of CMIL. IBM SPSS Statistics version 23 software was used for all statistical analysis. Statistical significance was set at P 
ISSN:1759-8885
1759-8893
DOI:10.1111/jphs.12380