Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Community Pharmacist towards Pharmaceutical Care in India: A Questionnaire Study

Background: Pharmaceutical care in 1990, they authored, “Pharmaceutical care is the responsible provision of drug therapy for the purpose of achieving definite outcome which improve patient quality of life” This study is to assess the knowledge, Attitude, Practice among Community Pharmacists for pharmaceutical care. Materials and Methods: Self-prepared and validated questionanaires were distributed among Registered Community pharmacists in India through online forms from December 2022 to July 2023, a cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was used, with convenience sampling utilised. Results: The primary objective of this study was to assess the demographic details of the community pharmacist as well as the distribution of knowledge on pharmaceutical care services, community pharmacist’s attitude towards practice of pharmaceutical care, community pharmacist’s pharmaceutical care practices, barriers to implementation of pharmaceutical care. Among 350 community pharmacists’ male respondents are higher than female. Most of the community pharmacists have 1 to 5 years’ experience. Almost all respondents agrees that PC is mandatory for pharmacists. Most of the pharmacists provide counsel and advice during dispensing. Conclusion: This study evaluated the knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of community pharmacists in India. According to the current survey, Community Pharmacists have fair knowledge but in practice, however, they are ineffective. In view of the above, steps must be taken to educate, empower, and train Community Pharmacists in the field of pharmaceutical care.