Publications by authors named "Tamara Al-Daghastani"

Introduction: Jordan declared a quarantine in March 2020 and shut down all educational institutions in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. E-learning was a novel way to continue the educational process in the wake of the pandemic. The study evaluates online learning (OL), aiming to examine the economic, financial, and psychological effects of OL on students, as well as their concentration, university instructors' efficiency, and satisfaction with OL.

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Objective: In this quantitative study, we intended to explore sexual/ reproductive counseling between Jordanian pharmacists by addressing pharmacists' knowledge regarding sexual/ reproductive health and their perception and practice in providing counseling to patients.

Method: This study adopted a survey methodology using a self-completed validated and administered unnamed survey. Participants were asked to fill-out the electronic survey after providing their electronic consent.

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Background Non-malignant hematologic and immune disorders-related hospitalization trends are unstudied despite their importance from a public health standpoint. Therefore, this study aimed to define the hospitalization trends of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases-10 (ICD-10) category diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (B&ID). Methods We conducted an ecologic study to analyze hospital admission data obtained from England's Hospital Episode Statistics database and Wales' Patient Episode Database.

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Background: Drug poisoning is considered as one of the main principal reasons for acute care hospitals admissions, and it places a significant burden on emergency medical services resources. The aim of this study is to examine the trend of hospital admission due to poisoning by psychotropic drugs and prescriptions of psychotropic medications in England and Wales in the past 21 years.

Method: Hospital admission data from the Hospital Episode Statistics database in England and the Patient Episode Database in Wales were used in this ecological study.

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Objectives: This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the hospitalization pattern of nervous system diseases from 1999 to 2019. Methods: This is ecological research based on data from the Hospital Episode Statistics database in England and the Patient Episode Database in Wales, both of which are publicly available. Data on hospital admissions were collected between April 1999 and March 2019.

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Background: Medication use assessment has a critical role in promoting the effective and rational use of pharmaceutical medications. There are no studies that have explored the utilization of all medications in England and Wales in the past 15 years without restrictions in the age group being studied or class of medications.

Aim: To explore the medication utilization pattern of dispensed medications in England and Wales in the past 15 years.

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Objectives: To analyze the role of pharmacists during the COVID-19 pandemic, to measure pharmacists' attitude toward COVID-19 safety measures (wearing masks, wearing gloves, isolation shield, good hygiene, etc.), and explore their perspectives regarding a second wave of the virus.

Methods: This cross-sectional online survey study was conducted in Jordan during the COVID-19 outbreak in July 2020 to discuss Jordanian pharmacists' awareness of safety at their workplace during the COVID-19 outbreak, their sources of information, and their predictions for COVID-19 vaccination.

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