INVESTIGATING THE KNOWLEDGE OF PHARMACISTS ABOUT COSMETICS PRODUCTS IN PHARMACIES OF TEHRAN ( IRAN)
Author(s)
Ghiasi G1, Hashemian F2, Kebriaeezadeh A3, Ghiasi S2, Sheikhlar A4
1TUMS, tehran, Iran, 2Azad university, Tehran, Iran, 3Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 4Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to investigate the knowledge of pharmacists working in the pharmacies of Tehran about healthy beauty products. METHODS: For this reason, the survey of this study was completed by 200 pharmacists (105 males and 95 females) employed in the pharmacies of Tehran.The most important part of this study was preparing a valid, general and applied questionnaire. Ordinary Multivariate Linear Regression and Multivariate Ridge Regression Tests were used for data analysis besides descriptive indicators. RESULTS: The knowledge of pharmacists about properly usage of sunscreen cares, or suitable type of sunscreens was about 69.90%. in addition, results obtained from average responses to the questions of this study- about 31%-, showed that the response to such items were very unsuitable.it was indicated that the knowledge level of pharmacists in the field of depilatories was very weak. CONCLUSIONS: Results of this study indicates this fact that the awareness of pharmacists about sunscreen cares was in average level. For depilatories, averagely 30% of pharmacists had acceptable knowledge and it wasn’t desirable. it was considered that there is only a significant relation between age of pharmacists and their knowledge about that. increase in their age, will caused decrease in their knowledge to two products, sunscreen care and depilatory Products. we can conclude that having full and accurate knowledge of pharmacists about these products and promoting their scientific knowledge, is the first and most important step that causes properly usage of such products as well as preventing the side effects from abuse of such products and for highly consumed products such as sunscreen cares and depilatories.
Conference/Value in Health Info
2014-09, ISPOR Asia Pacific 2014, Beijing, China
Value in Health, Vol. 17, No. 7 (November 2014)
Code
PHP49
Topic
Health Service Delivery & Process of Care
Topic Subcategory
Hospital and Clinical Practices
Disease
Multiple Diseases