{"id":4476,"date":"2023-07-20T15:37:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T15:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2023-07-27T15:43:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:43:31","slug":"west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2017-28-1-71-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2017-28-1-71-84\/","title":{"rendered":"West African Journal of Pharmacy (2017) 28 (1) 71-84"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Community pharmacists’ assessment of the factors that influence the recommendation of complementary\u00a0<\/b>medicines in Lagos State, Nigeria: a pilot study<\/b><\/p>

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Kosisochi Chinwendu Amorha , Arinola Eniola Joda , Ebere Emilia Ayogu andChukwuemeka Michael Ubaka<\/p>

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1 Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Management, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of\u00a0Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>

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2 Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Biopharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria<\/p>

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Corresponding author: Kosisochi Amorha<\/p>

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Background: Individuals are now more proactive about their healthcare and complementary medicines (CMs)\u00a0are usually utilized for self-care. They are widely sold in community pharmacies in Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>

Objectives: <\/b>This study evaluated the factors that influence the recommendation of complementary medicines\u00a0by community pharmacists.<\/span><\/p>

Methods:<\/b> A cross-sectional and descriptive survey was carried out in three community pharmacy zones in\u00a0Lagos State. Data were analyzed with the IBM Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) Statistics for\u00a0<\/span>Windows, Version 20.0 (IBM Corp, Version 20.0, Armonk, NY, USA) with statistical significance set at p \u22640.05.<\/span><\/p>

Results:<\/b> Most of the respondents were below 30 years of age (45.5%), male (61.8%), recent graduates (76.4%),\u00a0had only an undergraduate degree (61.8%) with less than 10 years of community pharmacy experience\u00a0<\/span>(81.8%). Only 43.6% had overall adequate knowledge of CMs. Many (98.2%) agreed that knowledge about\u00a0<\/span>CMs is important to them as practicing pharmacists. About 91% reported that they will not recommend a CM\u00a0<\/span>that has no evidence of safety. Only 40% of the respondents agreed that their undergraduate pharmacy\u00a0<\/span>training equipped them to be providers of information on CMs. Those who stocked CMs in their community\u00a0<\/span>pharmacies had better knowledge scores than those who did not (P = 0.033).<\/span><\/p>

Conclusion:<\/b> Community pharmacists in some zones in Lagos State, Nigeria had poor knowledge about\u00a0complementary medicines. This served as a major barrier to their recommendation of these medicines.\u00a0<\/span>Community pharmacists should engage in continuing education programmes and the undergraduate\u00a0<\/span>curriculum should be reviewed to produce better equipped professionals in this regard.<\/span><\/p>

Keywords:<\/b> barriers, complementary medicines, community pharmacists, drivers, knowledge<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Community pharmacists’ assessment of the factors that influence the recommendation of complementary\u00a0medicines in Lagos State, Nigeria: a pilot study \u00a0 Kosisochi Chinwendu Amorha , Arinola Eniola Joda , Ebere Emilia Ayogu andChukwuemeka Michael Ubaka \u00a0 1 Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Management, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of\u00a0Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria. \u00a0 2 […]<\/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":[230],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476"}],"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=4476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4482,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions\/4482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}