Knowledge, attitude and practice of community pharmacist towards COVID-19 and uses of zinc and doxycycline in COVID-19

Abstract

The public must routinely practice precautionary behaviors to control the spread of COVID-19, as no vaccines and antiviral treatments are currently available. This paper examines the public’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) related to COVID-19 and their relationships and identified the pandemic’s vulnerable populations to provide recommendations for behavioral interventions and policies. To Determine the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Community Pharmacists towards COVID- 19 and use of Zinc and Doxycycline in COVID-19 and the objective is to understand the knowledge of community pharmacist regarding use of zinc and Doxycycline in COVID-19. This is the cross sectional study conducted among the Community Pharmacists in and around Avadi, Chennai. This study assess the knowledge attitude and perception of community pharmacist regarding Zinc and Doxycycline use in COVID- 19, In comparison of individual KAP of community pharmacist with their work experience there was no significant difference with respect to their work experience all showed a good knowledge, positive attitude and positive perception regarding the use of Zinc and Doxycycline in COVID- 19, the value are 0.3 for knowledge, 0.5 for attitude and 0.3 for perception.