Abstract
Clinical pharmacy services are patient oriented services developed to promote the rational use of medicines by maximizing therapeutic effect of medicines in individual patients. The service is at the infant stage in Ethiopia and there is no adequate information about it in the country. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude & practice of health professionals towards clinical pharmacy services in selected public hospitals in West Shoa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. A facility based cross sectional survey was conducted from April 2 to April 16, 2018. The study used a quantitative method of data collection. A total of 150 health professionals were involved in the study; and convenience sampling techniques was used to collect the data. Data was collected using structured and self-administered questionnaires and it was analyzed by using SPSS version 23. Descriptive statistics including frequency, mean, percentage and table was used to present the data. 128 (92.1%) of health professionals were heard about clinical pharmacy services in Ethiopia. 104 (74.8%) strongly agreed & agreed that they appreciated the presence of pharmacist in the ward all the times important for patient care. However, 67 (48.2%) of respondents said the performance of the pharmacists in practicing clinical pharmacy in the hospital was poor. Generally, majority of health professionals had adequate knowledge and positive attitudes towards clinical pharmacy services but their practice with clinical pharmacists was found poor. It is recommended that collaborative working relationship should be established among health professionals in order to optimize and monitor drug use problem in the hospitals.
Highlights
The World Health Organization (WHO), define a health system “consists of all organizations, people and actions whose primary intent is to promote restore or maintain health”
Pharmaceutical services are an essential component of hospital care and clinical pharmacy services are patient oriented services developed to promote the rational use of medicines and to maximize therapeutic effect, minimize risk, minimize cost and respect patient choice and decisions there by ensuring the safe, effective and economic use of drug treatment in individual patients [3, 4]
Socio-demographic characteristics of respondents A total of 150 self-administered questionnaire were distributed to health professionals found in the study health facilities; from these 139 questionnaires were completed and returned to the investigator resulting in the response rate of 92.7%
Summary
The World Health Organization (WHO), define a health system “consists of all organizations, people and actions whose primary intent is to promote restore or maintain health”. One of the building block of a health system is Service delivery which includes effective, safe, and quality personal and non-personal health interventions that are provided to those in need, when and where needed (including infrastructure), with a minimal waste of resources [1]. Pharmaceutical services are an essential component of hospital care and clinical pharmacy services are patient oriented services developed to promote the rational use of medicines and to maximize therapeutic effect, minimize risk, minimize cost and respect patient choice and decisions there by ensuring the safe, effective and economic use of drug treatment in individual patients [3, 4]. Pharmaceutical care is the direct responsible provision of drug therapy for the purpose of achieving definite outcomes that improve patient’s quality of Esayas Tadesse Gebremariam et al.: Knowledge and Attitude of Health Professionals Towards Clinical
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