[
    {
        "id": "osp-10457",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Related to Dietary Supplements among a Group of Palestinian Pharmacists",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Altamimi",
                "given": "Mohammad"
            },
            {
                "family": "Hamdan",
                "given": "May"
            },
            {
                "family": "Badrasawi",
                "given": "Manal"
            },
            {
                "family": "Allahham",
                "given": "Saad"
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/en/articles/knowledge-attitudes-and-practices-related-to-dietary-supplements-among-a-group-of-palestinian-pharmacists",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2025
                ]
            ]
        },
        "container-title": "Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal",
        "volume": "21",
        "issue": "4",
        "page": "613-620",
        "DOI": "10.18295/squmj.4.2021.029",
        "publisher": "Sultan Qaboos University",
        "ISSN": "2075-051X",
        "abstract": "Objectives: The use of dietary supplements (DS) has increased, but due to a lack of related regulations, the prescription of DS depends on pharmacists’ knowledge. Hence, this study aimed to evaluate the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) related to DS among community-based pharmacists. Methods: This study followed a cross-sectional design targeting community pharmacists in West Bank, Palestine between September and December 2019. Selected participants filled a self-administered questionnaire regarding their KAP related to DS. The questionnaire contained 15 items: five questions on knowledge, seven on practices and three on attitudes. Results: At a 90% response rate, 56.2% of the representative sample was female. The participants’ experience was distributed almost equally across the categories of 0–5, 5–10 and over 10 years. Additionally, a majority of the participants were the responsible pharmacist and/or the pharmacy owner. Overall, the participants showed a moderate level of knowledge about DS with a mean score of 3.68 ± 1.1 out of 5; the correct answers ranged from 3.6% to 75.3% of the surveyed participants. The practices with the highest frequencies were as follows: taking DS sometimes (79.9%), taking supplements from well-known brands (56.2%), giving supplements to any patient (55.7%), selling supplements according to the participants’ knowledge (74.2%) and providing advice about supplements (73.2%). The questions about the pharmacists’ attitudes towards DS market regulation revealed that more than half (52%) of the participants believed that it was suitable. The association between knowledge score and practices was highly significant (P"
    }
]