{"id":4418,"date":"2023-07-14T16:47:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2023-07-28T11:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T11:35:49","slug":"west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2019-30-1-151-161-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2019-30-1-151-161-2\/","title":{"rendered":"West African Journal of Pharmacy (2019) 30 (1) 151 – 161"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Knowledge of pharmaceutical waste among patent medicine vendors in Jalingo metropolis, North-Central Nigeria<\/strong><\/p>

Abdul-Hakeem O. Abiola, Yusuf A. Idris, Ganiyat K. Oyeleke, Aisha T. AbdulKareem<\/em><\/p>

Department of Community Health and Primary Care, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Surulere, Lagos\u00a0State, Nigeria. National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Isolo, Lagos state, Nigeria.<\/p>

Department of Medicine, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Surulere, Lagos State, Nigeria. Department of Community Health, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Surulere, Lagos State, Nigeria<\/p>

Corresponding author:<\/strong> Abdul-Hakeem O. Abiola<\/em>
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ABSTRACT<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Background:<\/strong> Patent Medicine Vendors are individuals without formal pharmacy training that are involved in the\u00a0retail of medicines. They have the potential to generate a large volume of pharmaceutical waste and hence\u00a0constitute a source of concern if proper pharmaceutical waste management is to be ensured.<\/p>

Objective:<\/strong> To assess the knowledge of pharmaceutical waste management among Patent Medicine Vendors in\u00a0Jalingo Metropolis, North Central Nigeria.<\/p>

Methods:<\/b> A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in August 2017 among Patent Medicine Vendors in\u00a0Jalingo City. A pre-tested, structured, interviewer-administered questionnaire was used for data collection.
Responses to the knowledge questions were scored and graded as poor (<50%), fair (50-74%) and good (\u226575%).
Univariate, bivariate and multivariate analyses were carried out. P value \u2264 0.05 was considered statistically\u00a0significant.<\/p>

Results:<\/strong> The response rate was 81.97%. Age range and mean age of the respondents were 20-61 years and\u00a034.07\u00b19.99 years respectively. Majority of the respondents were males (72.00%). Igbo (31.33%) and HausaFulani (30.67%) ethnic groups dominated the profession. Half (50.0%) of the respondents had good knowledge of pharmaceutical waste management. The mean knowledge score (%) was 73.02\u00b114.33.<\/p>

Conclusion:<\/b> Patent medicine vending was male and Hausa-Fulani\/Igbo ethnic groups dominated. Few of the\u00a0Patent Medicine Vendors were below the recommended age for Patent Medicine Vendors. Only half of the\u00a0Patent Medicine Vendors had good knowledge of pharmaceutical waste management. Enforcement of
guidelines for Patent Medicine Vendors and continuous training of patent medicine vendors on pharmaceutical\u00a0waste management are therefore recommended.<\/p>

Keywords:<\/strong> Pharmaceutical Waste Management, Patent Medicine Vendors, knowledge<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Knowledge of pharmaceutical waste among patent medicine vendors in Jalingo metropolis, North-Central Nigeria Abdul-Hakeem O. Abiola, Yusuf A. Idris, Ganiyat K. Oyeleke, Aisha T. AbdulKareem Department of Community Health and Primary Care, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Surulere, Lagos State, Nigeria. National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Isolo, Lagos state, Nigeria. Department […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4552,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions\/4552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}