A cross-sectional survey on community pharmacists readiness to fight COVID-19 in a developing country: knowledge, attitude, and practice in Lebanon

Table 7 Questions about patients’ advice

If a patient comes to your pharmacy with respiratory symptoms	Never	Rarely	Often	Always
Do you ask questions about travel history?	9 (2.9%)	21 (6.8%)	92 (29.7%)	188 (60.0%)
Do you ask the patient if he had contact with a confirmed case COVID-19	17 (5.5%)	22 (7.1%)	76 (24.5%)	195 (62.9%)
Do you ask him if he had contact with travelers coming from the affected area	13 (4.2%)	26 (8.4%)	84 (27.1%)	187 (60.3%)
Do you offer patients awareness brochures?	No: 223 (71.9%)		Yes: 87 (28.1%)

How do you behave in these situations?	Call the physician	Call the MOPH	Laboratory for testing	Preventive advice^a
Flu-like symptoms with, during the last 14 days, history of travel to infected areas/Or contact with a COVID-19 case	80 (25.8%)	196 (63.2%)	140 (45.2%)	17 (37.7%)
Flu-like symptoms without a history of travel to infected areas or contact with confirmed COVID-19 case	165 (53.2%)	51 (16.5%)	79 (25.5%)	162 (52.3%)
Corona suggestive symptoms (fever, dry cough, dyspnea)	147 (47.4%)	196 (63.2%)	158 (51.0%)	127 (41.0%)
Patient with a Positive COVID-19 PCR test, with or without respiratory symptoms	110 (35.5%)	266 (85.8%)	59 (19.0%)	120 (38.7%)
Patient panicking due to suspected exposure	106 (34.2%)	102 (32.9%)	159 (51.3%)	184 (59.4%)
Patient panicking without symptoms or exposure	62 (20.0%)	7 (2.3%)	55 (17.7%)	264 (85.2%)

^aPreventive advice included social distancing, hygiene measures, and quarantine if necessary; numbers are presented as frequency (percentage)

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