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dc.contributor.authorAyele, Asnakew Achawen
dc.contributor.authorIslam, Md Shahidulen
dc.contributor.authorCosh, Suzanneen
dc.contributor.authorEast, Leahen
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-04T02:19:10Z-
dc.date.available2023-04-04T02:19:10Z-
dc.date.issued2023-03-
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, 14(1), p. 20-27en
dc.identifier.issn1759-8893en
dc.identifier.issn1759-8885en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/54508-
dc.description.abstract<p><b>Objectives</b></p><p> In countries with high maternal mortality and a shortage of healthcare professionals, community pharmacy professionals can provide important maternal healthcare services within their scope of practice. Evidence of community pharmacy professionals' level of involvement in maternal health service provision in Ethiopia is limited. This study aimed to assess the level of involvement of community pharmacy professionals in providing maternal health services in Ethiopia.</p><p><b>Methods</b></p><p> A multi-centre cross-sectional survey of 238 community pharmacy professionals was conducted from March to July 2020 in 6 cities of Amhara regional state in Ethiopia. Independent samples t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to test the mean difference. </p><p><b>Key findings</b></p><p> Most community pharmacy professionals were either 'involved' in advising about vitamins (53.4%), provision of contraceptives (52.9%), advising about lifestyle changes (46.2%), responding to minor symptoms (47.5%), nutritional advice during pregnancy (45.0%) and breastfeeding guidance or 'very involved' in advising about screening for chronic disease (41.6%). However, the level of involvement of community pharmacy professionals differed according to study participants' educational qualification/s, years of experience, licensure level, setting type, responsibility in the facility and previous training exposure about maternal health services. </p><p><b>Conclusions</b></p><p> Community pharmacy professionals in Ethiopia are involved in providing various maternal health services highlighting the importance that pharmacists can play in improving access and care within this context. However, government attention is needed to enhance their role through policy support and capacity building to improve the quality of service provided which could contribute to the reduction of maternal mortality.</p>en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Researchen
dc.titleInvolvement of community pharmacy professionals in maternal health service provision in Ethiopia: a multi-centre cross-sectional surveyen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/jphsr/rmad001en
local.contributor.firstnameAsnakew Achawen
local.contributor.firstnameMd Shahidulen
local.contributor.firstnameSuzanneen
local.contributor.firstnameLeahen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Healthen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Healthen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Psychologyen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Healthen
local.profile.emailasnake.21.uog@gmail.comen
local.profile.emailmislam27@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailscosh@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailleast@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryC1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.publisher.placeUnited Kingdomen
local.format.startpage20en
local.format.endpage27en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume14en
local.identifier.issue1en
local.title.subtitlea multi-centre cross-sectional surveyen
local.contributor.lastnameAyeleen
local.contributor.lastnameIslamen
local.contributor.lastnameCoshen
local.contributor.lastnameEasten
dc.identifier.staffune-id:aayeleen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:mislam27en
dc.identifier.staffune-id:scoshen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:leasten
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:1959.11/54508en
local.date.onlineversion2023-02-15-
dc.identifier.academiclevelStudenten
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
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local.title.maintitleInvolvement of community pharmacy professionals in maternal health service provision in Ethiopiaen
local.relation.fundingsourcenoteAAA acknowledges the finding support for his PhD study by University of New England International postgraduate Research Award scholarship (UNE IPRA).en
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.search.authorAyele, Asnakew Achawen
local.search.authorIslam, Md Shahidulen
local.search.authorCosh, Suzanneen
local.search.authorEast, Leahen
local.uneassociationYesen
local.atsiresearchNoen
local.sensitive.culturalNoen
local.identifier.wosid000934430100001en
local.year.available2023-
local.year.published2023-
local.fileurl.closedpublishedhttps://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/53b8104c-b0db-42e0-af99-1be3684f8e21en
local.subject.for2020420303 Family careen
local.subject.for2020420305 Health and community servicesen
local.subject.for2020420601 Community child healthen
local.subject.seo2020200509 Women's and maternal healthen
local.subject.seo2020200302 Community health careen
local.profile.affiliationtypeUNE Affiliationen
local.profile.affiliationtypeUNE Affiliationen
local.profile.affiliationtypeUNE Affiliationen
local.profile.affiliationtypeExternal Affiliationen
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