Table 5 Attitude of community pharmacists towards NSAIDs (n = 751)
Attitude item | Frequency (%) |
|---|---|
Do you believe that your current knowledge of NSAIDs is sufficient to allow you to advise patients on safe use? | |
Yes | 531 (70.5%) |
No | 100 (13.3%) |
I do not know | 120 (15.9%) |
Do you believe that community pharmacists have a critical role in preventing NSAIDs related kidney and gastrointestinal injuries? | |
Yes | 651 (86.5%) |
No | 63 (8.4%) |
I do not know | 37 (4.9%) |
Do you believe that today’s practice in Egypt in relation to counseling on appropriate use of NSAIDs needs to undergo some changes in order to prevent kidney and gastrointestinal side effects? | |
Yes | 638 (84.7%) |
No | 58 (7.7%) |
I do not know | 55 (7.3%) |
Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statement “It is every patient’s right to be educated on kidney, gastrointestinal and other side effects of NSAIDs.” | |
Strongly agree | 382 (50.7%) |
Agree | 277 (36.8%) |
Neutral | 80 (10.6%) |
Disagree | 9 (1.2%) |
Strongly disagree | 3 (0.4%) |
Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statement “Provision of information on kidney and gastrointestinal side effects of NSAIDs to patients might be time consuming.” | |
Strongly agree | 153 (20.3%) |
Agree | 234 (31.1%) |
Neutral | 181 (24%) |
Disagree | 132 (17.5%) |
Strongly disagree | 51 (6.8%) |
Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statement “In order to avoid dispensing NSAIDs to high-risk patents, pharmacists should ask patients about their health problems and concomitant medication use” | |
Strongly agree | 349 (46.3%) |
Agree | 288 (38.2%) |
Neutral | 82 (10.9%) |
Disagree | 23 (3.1%) |
Strongly disagree | 9 (1.2%) |