BRIEF COMMUNICATION
Year : 2019 | Volume
: 8 | Issue : 3 | Page : 174--177
The effect of demographic and social factors on the decision-making of community pharmacists in ethical dilemmas
Kingston Rajiah1, Rajesh Venaktaraman2
1 Department of Pharmacy Practice, Institute of Pharmacy, Shri Jagdishprasad Jhabarmal Tibrewala University, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, India
2 Department of Pharmacy Practice, Adichunchanagiri College of Pharmacy, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Kingston Rajiah
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Institute of Pharmacy, Shri Jagdishprasad Jhabarmal Tibrewala University, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan
India
Objective: The objective of the study is to investigate the effect of demographic and social factors on the decision-making of community pharmacists when confronted with ethical dilemmas during their professional practice. Methods:This was a questionnaire-based, cross-sectional study. A total of 1057 community pharmacists were approached. The final participants were 742. Independent-sample t-test and one-way analysis of variance were used to analyze the factors (age, gender, work experience, education qualification, number of pharmacists per pharmacy, and pharmacy location). Findings: Older pharmacists, experienced pharmacists, and urban pharmacists have less ethical dilemma compared to the younger pharmacists, less work experience pharmacists, and rural pharmacists, respectively. Conclusion: Individual factors such as age, gender, work experience, and educational level and organizational factors such as the number of pharmacists in a pharmacy and location of pharmacy may influence the ethical dilemma of community pharmacists.
How to cite this article:
Rajiah K, Venaktaraman R. The effect of demographic and social factors on the decision-making of community pharmacists in ethical dilemmas.J Res Pharm Pract 2019;8:174-177
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Rajiah K, Venaktaraman R. The effect of demographic and social factors on the decision-making of community pharmacists in ethical dilemmas. J Res Pharm Pract [serial online] 2019 [cited 2023 Mar 27 ];8:174-177
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