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A national study to assess pharmacists’ preparedness against COVID-19 during its rapid rise period in Pakistan

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  • Iltaf Hussain
  • Abdul Majeed
  • Hamid Saeed
  • Furqan K Hashmi
  • Imran Imran
  • Muqarrab Akbar
  • Muhammad O Chaudhry
  • Muhammad Fawad Rasool

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To evaluate the pharmacist’s preparedness against the COVID-19 during its rapid rise period in Pakistan, an online cross-sectional study was carried out from March 30 to May 22, 2020 among the pharmacists using a pre-validated self-administered questionnaire. A total of 1149 participants completed the survey, amongst which 430(37.9%) were working as retail pharmacists, 216 (18.8%) as community pharmacists, and 213(18.5%) as hospital pharmacists. The mean COVID-19 knowledge score of the participants was 6.77±0.5, which indicated that 84% of them had good knowledge about COVID-19. The multiple linear regression model revealed that attitude was significantly associated with gender (p = 0.001), marital status (p

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  • Iltaf Hussain & Abdul Majeed & Hamid Saeed & Furqan K Hashmi & Imran Imran & Muqarrab Akbar & Muhammad O Chaudhry & Muhammad Fawad Rasool, 2020. "A national study to assess pharmacists’ preparedness against COVID-19 during its rapid rise period in Pakistan," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(11), pages 1-10, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0241467
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241467
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