Assessment of the Perception, Readiness and Willingness of Community Pharmacists to Provide Vaccination Services in Edo State.
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Abstract
Background: Vaccines are the most cost-effective intervention in preventing infectious diseases. In recent times, attention has turned to preventing infections and diseases in adulthood. Community pharmacists are possibly underutilized public health professionals especially as they are conveniently located and offer extended working hours. By their accessibility and reach in local communities,community pharmacists are ideally positioned to promote and provide vaccination services. The aim is to assess the perception, readiness and willingness of community pharmacists to provide vaccination services in Edo State. Method: This was a quantitative cross-sectional study that was conducted among 250 licensed and registered community pharmacies in Edo State. The interviewer questionnaire was the data collection tool. Descriptive and inferential (χ2 test) analyses were done using SPSS software with a significance value set at <0.05. Result: One hundred and fifty-nine (77.6%) of community pharmacists demonstrated a positive perception of pharmacists' involvement in vaccination services. The most common vaccines available in the pharmacies included tetanus [191 (93.2%)], antirabies [123(60%)], hepatitis b [31(15.1%)], and typhoid [31(15.1%)]. Eighty-five (41.5%) pharmacists have been trained in all aspects of vaccination services. Eight (3.9%) pharmacists have in place all requirements in terms of equipment and conditions for providing vaccination services, while 99 (48.3%) meet some requirements. Regarding willingness to engage in vaccination provision, 109 (53.2%) community pharmacists expressed a strong desire to provide vaccination services. Government policy 188(91.7%) and support from pharmacy regulatory body and Associations are enablers, while the cost of equipment 165(80.5%) and poor knowledge and skills 160(78%) of community pharmacists are possible hindrances to community pharmacists' participation in the vaccination programme. Pharmacists with >5 years of experience (p=0.00), owners of pharmacies (p=0.001), and those working more than 12 hours daily (p=0.000) were more ready to provide vaccine service. Conclusion: Most community pharmacists have embraced their expanded role of providing vaccination services. Some are currently providing this service, while others who are yet to get involved are willing to do so. The need for Pharmacy Regulatory organization and Associations to advocate for community pharmacists as vaccinators and for training and retraining of pharmacists will facilitate the recognition of community pharmacists in the National Vaccination Programme.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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