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Abstract
Background: In 2022, health products were the best-selling category in the marketplace. Over-the-counter medicines are the only types of drugs that can be sold online. However, in reality, many prescription drugs are being traded online. A lack of public awareness about purchasing drugs online can have negative consequences, such as buying counterfeit and hazardous medicines and drugs without distribution permits. A community health initiative for public education, DAGUSIBU, is being powered by pharmacists and must be encouraged.
Objective: To educate the public about the DAGUSIBU and measure the changes in public knowledge after the education process.
Methods: A quasi-experimental one-group pre-test and post-test method was used to design the study. Univariate and bivariate Wilcoxon tests were used to analyse the data.
Results: The level of public knowledge before education was 49.41% in the poor category, 36.72% in the good category, and 13.87% in the adequate category. Following education, the respondents’ level of knowledge was classified as good (48.46%), adequate (41.12%) and poor (10.42%). The p-value of the level of knowledge before and after education was < 0.05, according to the Wilcoxon test.
Conclusion: DAGUSIBU education in digital platforms to obtain drugs had a significant impact on public knowledge
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Pharmacy Education journal provides a research, development and evaluation forum for communication between academic teachers, researchers and practitioners in professional and pharmacy education, with an emphasis on new and established teaching and learning methods, new curriculum and syllabus directions, educational outcomes, guidance on structuring courses and assessing achievement, and workforce development. It is a peer-reviewed online open access platform for the dissemination of new ideas in professional pharmacy education and workforce development. Pharmacy Education supports Open Access (OA): free, unrestricted online access to research outputs. Readers are able to access the Journal and individual published articles for free - there are no subscription fees or ''pay per view'' charges. Authors wishing to publish their work in Pharmacy Education do so without incurring any financial costs.