HA SaâÂÂab, A Giwa, SI Yakubu, HBF Giwa, D Abubakar, WT Ajiboye
This study was carried out in the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital Nigeria with the objective of assessing pharmacists` knowledge, attitude and practice of pharmaceutical care for diabetes mellitus patients. A cross-sectional study of the total population of pharmacists (30) involved in diabetes mellitus management in the Hospital was carried out using a structured questionnaire. Nineteen (65.5%) of respondents had satisfactory / acceptable knowledge about pharmaceutical care (χ2 = 71.32; p = 0.00; df = 2). Twenty Eight (96.6%) had positive attitude towards pharmaceutical care for diabetes mellitus patients based on interest to know more and seeing the need and willingness to incorporate pharmaceutical care into practice (χ2 = 172.98; p= 0.00; df = 1). Twenty Two (75.9%) of the pharmacists had good practice of pharmacetical care in identification of prescriptions errors (χ2 = 23.24; p= 0.00; df =2) and identification of 1-5 prescription errors per week (χ2 =52.02; p = 0.00; df=1). However, there was no significant difference in the proportion of pharmacists that had good and poor practice of pharmaceutical care in the area of monitoring medications and improvement in the health of diabetes patients (χ2 = 1.62; p = 0.203; df =1). The pharmacists’ level of pharmaceutical care practice needs to be improved upon in the area of monitoring medications and improvement in heath of diabetes patients.
