Assessment of Knowledge and Attitude among Pharmacists toward Pharmaceutical Care in Eastern Ethiopia

Table 4

Factors associated with attitude and knowledge of pharmaceutical care among pharmacists in Eastern Ethiopia, 2018 (n = 78).

Variables	Category	Attitudes		Knowledge
		Favorable	Unfavorable	value	Good	Poor	value
Age	≥30	13 (37.1%)	22 (51.2%)	0.257	27 (77.1%)	8 (22.9%)	0.056
	<30	22 (62.9%)	21 (48.8%)		40 (93%)	3 (7%)
Sex	Male	30 (46.2%)	35 (53.8%)	0.763	57 (87.7%)	8 (12.3%)	0.380
	Female	5 (38.5%)	8 (61.5%)		10 (76.9%)	3 (23.1%)
Practice setting	Hospital	24 (54.5%)	20 (45.5%)		42 (95.5%)	2 (4.5%)	0.008
	Community	11 (32.4%)	23 (67.6%)		25 (73.5%)	9 (26.5%)
Year of experience	<10 years	31 (46.3%)	36 (53.7%)	0.067	58 (86.6%)	9 (13.4%)	0.649
	≥10 years	4 (36.4%)	7 (63.6%)		9 (81.8%)	2 (18.2%)
Training curriculum	B.Pharm with old curriculum	14 (32.6%)	29 (67.4%)	0.022	35 (81.4%)	8 (18.6%)	0.328
	B.Pharm with new clinical oriented curriculum and others	21 (60%)	14 (40%)		32 (91.4%)	3 (8.6%)

Variables with the significant association.