Pharmacy employees’ involvement in safeguarding persons with dementia who use dietary supplements: Results from a survey of Norwegian pharmacies

Table 1 Pharmacists’ and pharmacy technicians’ attitudes toward dietary supplements

	Pharmacist		Pharmacy technicians		Total		p-value^a
	n = 57		n = 48		n = 105
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Personal use of DS (past or current)^b	25	44	14	29	39	37	0.131
Believe DS have effects against dementia^{b, c}	5	9	4	8	9	9	0.172
Agrees that DS can cause harm to health^{b, c}	44	77	18	38	62	59	< 0.001
Recommend DS to customers unprompted^d	21	37	16	33	37	35	0.369

DS Dietary supplements. Pharmacists include employees with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in pharmacy. Pharmacy technicians include employees with other educational backgrounds, mainly pharmacy technicians (upper secondary school). ^aFisher’s exact test; ^bData are missing for one employee. ^cThe categories tested were yes, no and do not know. ^dData are missing for two persons. Significant comparisons are printed in bold

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