ArticleSaudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society2018
An audit on parental attitudes towards medicines used in children.
Article in Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Parental Attitudes Toward the Administration of Medicines to Children: A Cross-Sectional Study in Jordan.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Over-the-Counter Medication Use among Parents in Saudi Arabia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- Antibiotic use for respiratory syncytial virus in the Middle East: A surveillance study in hospitalized Jordanian children.PloS one · 2021Article
- Pharmaceutical care in children, an exploratory study of parental experiences in Jordan.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2020Article
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- Perceptions and attitudes towards off-label dispensing for pediatric patients, a study of hospital based pharmacists in Jordan.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2018Article
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Abstract
introductionThere is growing concerns regarding the use of medicines in children. Therefore, many strategies were implemented to improve such use and make safe and effective medicines more available for children. Enhancing interaction between parents and health care providers plays an important role in insuring the proper use of medicines. In order to optimize such interaction, the attitudes, beliefs and practices of parents toward medicine use in children need to be explored.
methodsA validated questionnaire was administered via face to face interviews to 1000 parents attending pediatric outpatient clinics with their children in order to investigate their attitudes toward children's medicines.
resultsThe majority of respondents (83.2%) were mothers. The majority participants (84.4%) agreed that medicines are necessary in treating illnesses, 80% of the parents had worries about the side effects and interactions of medicines, and 60% of the parents said they try to avoid giving medicines to their children. Moreover, parents in this study varied considerably in their views toward prescription and over-the- counter medicines. More than half of the participants (55.2%) declared that doctors in Jordan prescribe antibiotics to children too easily.
conclusionParticipants had positive attitudes toward the necessity of medicines for ill children. However, a considerable proportion of the parents had negative attitudes toward children's medicines with respect to their side effects and interactions, their capability of disturbing the body's own capability of healing illnesses, their unnatural characteristic and other aspects related to medicines.
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