{"id":5296,"date":"2023-07-30T08:33:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T08:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2023-08-08T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T08:38:12","slug":"west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2012-23-2-65-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2012-23-2-65-75\/","title":{"rendered":"West African Journal of Pharmacy (2012) 23 (2) 65 \u2013 75"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Willingness to practice basic first aid care among community pharmacists in Lagos Nigeria<\/b><\/p>

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Scholastica Mnena Lan ,Ibrahim A Oreagba , Sikiru O Usman , Azuka C Oparah<\/p>

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1\u00a0The Nigerian Academy of Science, University of Lagos Campus Akoka, Lagos Nigeria<\/span><\/p>

2\u00a0Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine University of Lagos, Idi-araba, Lagos, Nigeria,<\/span><\/p>

3\u00a0Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy,\u00a0<\/span>University of Benin, Benin-City, Nigeria<\/span><\/p>

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Corresponding author: Scholastica Mnena Lan<\/p>

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Background<\/b>: The growing incidence of terrorism and\/or disasters across the world makes it important that all healthcare professionals get empowered with the skills to offer first aid to self <\/span>or others when the need arises.<\/span><\/p>

Objectives<\/b>: The objectives of this study were to assess the knowledge and willingness to practice basic life saving first aid care (FAC) among community pharmacists in a metropolitan city, South West <\/span>Nigeria<\/span><\/p>

Methods<\/b>: This study was conducted with the aid of structured interview and questionnaires among registered community pharmacists in two Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Lagos State and the <\/span>reports obtained were subjected to descriptive and inferential statistical analysis.<\/span><\/p>

Results<\/b>: The feedback showed that almost all (136, 96.1%) of the respondents could correctly define first aid care and also gave the correct aim of the provision of first aid care. Majority 126 (88.1%) had <\/span>been involved in the practice of life saving first aid care though only very few (13, 9.1%) attended a <\/span>recent training on FAC. However, their practice of FAC was affected by lack of adequate FA skills, the <\/span>inability of most clients to pay for their bills, lack of cooperation from other members of the health <\/span>team regarding referral of FAC cases in Lagos state, and lack of standardized skills acquisition protocols <\/span>for the training of community pharmacists in the provision of FAC .<\/span><\/p>

Conclusion:<\/b> The community pharmacists in the two study areas demonstrated good knowledge of first aid care but few applied this knowledge in their daily practice. The pharmacists indicated <\/span>willingness to practice first aid effectively if properly trained. There is a need to sensitize all <\/span>stakeholders to ensure that good quality first aid care services are made available in the community <\/span>pharmacies.<\/span><\/p>

Key words:<\/b> First Aid Care, Community Pharmacists, Willingness to practice, Nigeria<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Willingness to practice basic first aid care among community pharmacists in Lagos Nigeria \u00a0 Scholastica Mnena Lan ,Ibrahim A Oreagba , Sikiru O Usman , Azuka C Oparah \u00a0 1\u00a0The Nigerian Academy of Science, University of Lagos Campus Akoka, Lagos Nigeria 2\u00a0Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine University of Lagos, Idi-araba, Lagos, Nigeria, 3\u00a0Department of […]<\/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":[237],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296"}],"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=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5302,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/5302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}