Objective:
To assess the
knowledge,
attitude and practice of towards
pharmaceutical care for
pharmacists working in
community pharmacy in Alqassim region in
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Mthedology Two hundred twenty four
pharmacists were included using a pretested
self administered
questionnaire designed to carry out a cross-sectional descriptive study.
Results:
The response rate was 63%, there were (52.7%) of the
pharmacists think that they are knowledgeable about
pharmaceutical care. The majority of the
pharmacists (77.7%) think that
pharmaceutical care is the
pharmacist responsibility. Taking
patients’ medication
history is a service often/always provided by (54.5%) of the
pharmacists. The most important barriers to provide
pharmaceutical care are overload of responsibilities (86.8%), lack of clinical
knowledge of
disease states (50%), and lack of technical
knowledge on how to provide
Pharmaceutical care (47%).
Conclusion:
The current
pharmaceutical care situation in
community pharmacies in Alqassim
needs further improvement by improving
pharmacist information regarding medications and
disease states, and overcoming barriers to provide
pharmaceutical care are useful.