Coronavirus Disease 2019 Knowledge, Its Vaccine Uptake Intentions, and the Influence of Personality Traits among Undergraduate Pharmacy Students in a University Setting: Findings and Implications.

Context: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the greatest global health catastrophe of the century, with its vaccine hesitancy compounding the woes. Relevant stakeholders, including pharmacy students (whose education was disrupted) are important bulwarks against these catastrophes, but their COVID-19-related information are scarce.

Aims: We assessed COVID-19 knowledge, its vaccine uptake intentions, and the influence of personality traits among pharmacy undergraduates in a Nigerian university.

Pharmacy Students' Perception of the Content and Delivery of Drug Information Training: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Objective: To explore the pharmacy students' perception of the content and pedagogical strategies used for the delivery of drug information (DI) training.

Methods: An explanatory sequential mixed-methods study was conducted among BSc Pharmacy and PharmD students at the College of Pharmacy, Qatar University. The first phase consisted of a quantitative cross-sectional survey using a 34-item pretested questionnaire.

Predictors of community pharmacists' readiness to manage the effective and safe use of oral anticancer medicines in a developing setting.

Background: There is a paucity of studies about the readiness of community pharmacists to manage the safe and effective use of oral anticancer medicines (OAMs) in developing settings.

Objectives: Using the readiness component (knowledge and willingness) of the situational theory of leadership, the study assessed community pharmacists' readiness to manage the safe and effective use of OAMs in Qatar, and also identified its significant predictors.

Methods: A cross-sectional assessment of 252 community pharmacists was conducted with a pre-tested 48-item questionnaire.

Knowledge of Lassa fever, its prevention and control practices and their predictors among healthcare workers during an outbreak in Northern Nigeria: A multi-centre cross-sectional assessment.

Background: The year 2020 Lassa fever (LF) outbreak had the greatest disease burden and this can place an enormous strain on the already overstretched healthcare system and can potentially increase morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases. Therefore, having a knowledgeable healthcare workforce with appropriate skills and competencies to prevent and manage outbreaks of a neglected infectious disease such as LF in Nigeria will potentially enhance public health. Thus, this survey assessed the level of knowledge of LF and its prevention and control (PC) measures amongst the healthcare workers (HCWs) during a LF outbreak in Katsina state, Nigeria.

Prevalence, types and severity of medication errors associated with the use of automated medication use systems in ambulatory and institutionalized care settings: A systematic review protocol.

The use of automated systems within the medication use process has significantly reduce the occurrence of medication errors and the associated clinical and financial burden. However, automated systems lull into a false sense of security and increase the risk of medication errors that are often associated with socio-technical interactions, automation bias, workarounds and overrides. The objective of the systematic review is to determine the prevalence, types and severity of medication errors that are associated the use of automated systems in ambulatory and institutionalized care settings.

Determinants of community pharmacists' information gathering and counseling practices during the management of minor ailments.

Objective: To assess the determinants of community pharmacists' information gathering and counseling practices during the management of minor ailments in Qatar.

Method: A cross-sectional study of 305 community pharmacists was conducted with a pre-tested 27-item questionnaire. Bivariate logistic regression was used to identify the determinants of information gathering and counseling practices.

Management of common minor ailments in Qatar: Community pharmacists' self-perceived competency and its predictors.

Studies focused on comprehensive assessment of self-perceived competency of community pharmacists to manage minor ailments are scanty despite that self-perceived competency is a valid determinant of task performance. The objectives of the study were to assess community pharmacists' self-perceived competency to manage fourteen common minor ailments in Qatar, and identify its significant predictors. A cross-sectional assessment of 307 community pharmacists was conducted with a pre-tested 20-item questionnaire.

Laboratory monitoring of hematological and hepatic parameters in ambulatory patients receiving alpha-methyldopa in a Nigerian tertiary care setting.

The objective of the study is to assess the frequency and comprehensiveness of laboratory monitoring of hematological and hepatic parameters in ambulatory Nigerian hypertensive patients on methyldopa therapy. A retrospective cross sectional study was conducted between 1(st) February and 31(st) March 2007 at the Medical Outpatient Clinic of a 900-bed premier teaching hospital located in Ibadan, Nigeria. 260 case notes of hypertensive patients, out of the 1178 case notes of patients who had been prescribed at least 250 mg of methyldopa for at least 2 months, were reviewed.