Clinical trial NCT04374513: Community Pharmacists Behaviour During Covid-19
Official title: SURVEY of RETAIL PHARMACISTS KNOWLEDGE, ROLE & BEHAVIOR DURING COVID-19 VIRUS OUTBREAK
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Covid19
Keywords: Pharmacists/ covid-19
Lead sponsor: Damanhour University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-05-05
Enrollment: 318
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: community pharmacists

Brief summary: During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments issued movement restrictions and placed areas into quarantine to reduce the spread of the disease.Community pharmacists and their teams are a vital healthcare provider during the outbreak; they remain on the frontline of public health by serving as direct points of access for their patients. The retail pharmacists should provide public community, costumers and patients with right and trusted information about covid-19. They also should have role in awareness spreading regarding personnel safety and hygiene

Detailed description: The survey will enroll as many community pharmacists as possible in the survey portion of the study - The number of participates have no limitations, at least 50 participants.

The survey will be enrolled in online google form, face to face interview \& semi-structured telephone interviews if possible.

The research procedures:

1. An online survey link will include questions regarding the impact of role and behavior of retail pharmacists during covid-19 outbreak.
2. Face to face and semi-structured interviews if possible: For those pharmacists who state that they would like to participate in an interview, a random sample will be contacted.

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Post graduated pharmacist.
2. Community pharmacists.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. under graduated students.
2. not pharmacist.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Post graduated pharmacist. Community pharmacists.

Exclusion Criteria:

* under graduated students. not pharmacist.

Primary outcomes:
measure: community pharmacists facing covid-19
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Beheira
country: Egypt
facility: Damanhour university
state: Damanhour
city: Alexandria
country: Egypt
facility: Damanhour universty
Study officials:
affiliation: Professor in Pharmacology, Faculty of pharmacy, Damanhour University
name: Asser Ghoneim, phD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Farooq A, Laato S, Islam AKMN. Impact of Online Information on Self-Isolation Intention During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional Study. J Med Internet Res. 2020 May 6;22(5):e19128. doi: 10.2196/19128.
citation: Bukhari N, Rasheed H, Nayyer B, Babar ZU. Pharmacists at the frontline beating the COVID-19 pandemic. J Pharm Policy Pract. 2020 Apr 20;13:8. doi: 10.1186/s40545-020-00210-w. eCollection 2020.
citation: Rutter V, Chan AHY, Tuck C, Bader L, Babar ZU, Bates I. Weaving the health and pharmaceutical care agenda through the themes of the commonwealth heads of government meeting (CHOGM), London 2018. J Pharm Policy Pract. 2018 Apr 11;11:10. doi: 10.1186/s40545-018-0140-3. eCollection 2018.