Perception of Community Pharmacists towards Dispensing Errors in Community Pharmacy Setting in Gondar Town, Northwest Ethiopia

Table 6

Perceived factors contributing to the dispensing errors .

Factors for dispensing errors	Independent variables
	Sex	Age	Educational level	Work experience	Additional work experience	Pharmacy ownership	Dispensing frequency
Poor prescription hand writing	= 0.166	= 0.032	= 0.006	= 0.015	= 0.545	= 0.429	= 0.451
Similar/confusing names	= 0.781	= 0.089	= 0.644	= 0.326	= 0.528	= 0.070	= 0.308
Packaging & labeling	= 0.366	= 0.813	= 0.113	= 0.290	= 0.121	= 0.067	= 0.960
Pharmacist fatigue of any cause	= 0.560	= 0.452	= 0.785	= 0.829	= 0.821	= 0.652	= 0.205
Job dissatisfaction	= 0.972	= 0.386	= 0.370	= 0.666	= 0.389	= 0.063	= 0.236
Work load	= 0.333	= 0.543	= 0.529	= 0.791	= 0.792	= 0.189	= 0.242
Noise	= 0.354	= 0.758	= 0.268	= 0.653	= 0.810	= 0.200	= 0.174
Interruption	= 0.280	= 0.143	= 0.023	= 0.515	= 0.754	= 0.032	= 0.395
Design of dispensary	= 0.575	= 0.792	= 0.039	= 0.388	= 0.639	= 0.876	= 0.503
Lack of privacy	= 0.606	= 0.429	= 0.043	= 0.630	= 0.444	= 0.429	= 0.427
Lack of time to talk with patients	= 0.053	= 0.345	= 0.472	= 0.188	= 0.515	= 0.964	= 0.872

Note. 5 point likert scale (0 = never, 4 = very often), = statistically significant at , Mann-Whitney test.