What Do the Hospital Pharmacists Think about the Quality of Pharmaceutical Care Services in a Pakistani Province? A Mixed Methodology Study

Table 3

Perception regarding patient counseling.

Items in questionnaire	Responses		value^†
	Yes, (%)	No, (%)	Age	Gender	Type of hospital	Years of practice
Physicians are ready to accept your participation in patient counseling	70 (62.5)	42 (37.5)	0.004^*	0.559	0.005^*	0.786
Involved in educating patients	101 (90.2)	11 (9.8)	0.028^*	0.464	0.000^*	0.430
Spend enough time on each patient	55 (49.1)	57 (50.9)	0.436	0.179	0.027^*	0.376
Inform about drug and food interactions	93 (83)	19 (17)	0.218	0.412	0.479	0.201
Instruct how to use their medications	103 (97.3)	3 (2.7)	0.686	0.427	0.824	0.584
Inform about side effects of drugs	82 (73.2)	30 (26.8)	0.342	0.026^*	0.025^*	0.716
Inform about storage conditions of drugs	99 (88.4)	13 (11.6)	0.799	0.028^*	0.355	0.895

Chi-square; ^*significant relationship with the respective variables.