Engaging community pharmacists to eliminate inadvertent doping in sports: A study of their knowledge on doping.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to evaluate the community pharmacists' knowledge of tackling the issue of inadvertent doping in Malaysia. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 384 community pharmacists working in Malaysia using a self-administered questionnaire. All the respondents were pharmacists fully registered with the Pharmacy Board of Malaysia and had been working in the community setting for at least one year. Of the 426 community pharmacists approached, 384 community pharmacists participated in this study, giving a response rate of 90.14%. The majority of the respondents were females (63.5%), graduated from local universities (74.9%), with median years of practising as a community pharmacist of six years (interquartile range, IQR = 9 years). The respondents were found to have moderate lev

SUBMITTER: Voravuth N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9187095 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature