A national study to assess pharmacists’ preparedness against COVID-19 during its rapid rise period in Pakistan

Iltaf Hussain, Abdul Majeed, Hamid Saeed, Furqan K Hashmi, Imran Imran, Muqarrab Akbar, Muhammad O Chaudhry and Muhammad Fawad Rasool

PLOS ONE, 2020, vol. 15, issue 11, 1-10

Abstract: To evaluate the pharmacist’s preparedness against the COVID-19 during its rapid rise period in Pakistan, an online cross-sectional study was carried out from March 30 to May 22, 2020 among the pharmacists using a pre-validated self-administered questionnaire. A total of 1149 participants completed the survey, amongst which 430(37.9%) were working as retail pharmacists, 216 (18.8%) as community pharmacists, and 213(18.5%) as hospital pharmacists. The mean COVID-19 knowledge score of the participants was 6.77±0.5, which indicated that 84% of them had good knowledge about COVID-19. The multiple linear regression model revealed that attitude was significantly associated with gender (p = 0.001), marital status (p

Date: 2020
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