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Abstract
Objective background: Warfarin has long been regarded as the cornerstone anticoagulant for patients requiring long-term prevention or treatment of thromboembolic disorders. With adequate knowledge and counseling skills, hospital and community pharmacists can play a major role in enhancing warfarin therapy.
Objective: to evaluate the knowledge and counseling practices toward warfarin among community and hospital pharmacists in UAE.
Methods: A cross-sectional study involving community and hospital pharmacies was conducted with online questionnaire which was submitted to pharmacists focusing on their pharmacotherapeutic knowledge and patient education toward warfarin in UAE. Data were collected within 3 months (July, August and September 2021). SPSS Version 26 was used to analyze the data. The survey questions were sent to expert researchers in pharmacy practice for comments on their relevancy, clarity, and essentiality.
Results: Among the target population sample size of 400 pharmacists were approached. Majority of the pharmacists in UAE (157/400, 39.3%) had 1-5 years of experience. Most of the participants (52%) have fair knowledge about warfarin and (62.1%) of them have fair counseling practices about warfarin. Hospital pharmacists have more knowledge than community pharmacists (Mean rank, Independent pharmacy: 166.30, Chain pharmacy: 138.01, Hospital pharmacy: 252.27, p<0.05) and they have better counseling practice than community pharmacists (Mean rank, Independent pharmacy: 188.83, Chain pharmacy: 170.18, Hospital pharmacy: 222.90, p<0.05).
Conclusion: The study's participants had moderate knowledge and counseling practices of warfarin. As a result, specialized training in warfarin therapy management for pharmacists is needed to improve therapeutic outcomes and avoid complications. Moreover, conferences or online courses should be held to train pharmacists on how to provide professional counseling to patients.
目的背景：长期以来，华法林一直被认为是需要长期预防或治疗血栓栓塞性疾病的患者的基石抗凝剂。有了足够的知识和咨询技能，医院和社区药剂师可以在加强华法林治疗方面发挥重要作用。目的：评估阿联酋社区和医院药剂师对华法林的知识和咨询实践。数据收集时间为3个月（2021年7月、8月和9月）。采用SPSS Version 26对数据进行分析。调查问题被发送给药学实践中的专家研究人员，以征求他们对其相关性、清晰度和重要性的意见。结果：在目标人群中，接近了400名药剂师的样本量。阿联酋的大多数药剂师（157/400，39.3%）有1-5年的工作经验。大多数参与者（52%）对华法林有相当的了解，其中（62.1%）有关于华法林的公平咨询实践。医院药剂师的知识比社区药剂师多（平均排名，独立药房：166.30，连锁药房：138.01，医院药房：252.27，P结论：研究参与者对华法林有适度的知识和咨询实践。因此，需要对药剂师进行华法林治疗管理方面的专业培训，以提高治疗效果并避免并发症教会药剂师如何为患者提供专业咨询。
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Pharmacy Practice is a free full-text peer-reviewed journal with a scope on pharmacy practice. Pharmacy Practice is published quarterly. Pharmacy Practice does not charge and will never charge any publication fee or article processing charge (APC) to the authors. The current and future absence of any article processing charges (APCs) is signed in the MoU with the Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation (CPPI) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Pharmacy. Pharmacy Practice is the consequence of the efforts of a number of colleagues from different Universities who belief in collaborative publishing: no one pays, no one receives. Although focusing on the practice of pharmacy, Pharmacy Practice covers a wide range of pharmacy activities, among them and not being comprehensive, clinical pharmacy, pharmaceutical care, social pharmacy, pharmacy education, process and outcome research, health promotion and education, health informatics, pharmacoepidemiology, etc.
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