Assessment of physical premises of selected pharmacies of Nepal:

摘要

Background:This work attempts to investigate the standards of physical premises of pharmacies in terms of cleanliness, ventilation, protection from physical environment, spaciousness and storage facilities of two selected districts of Nepal: Kathmandu and Kaski.Methods:A cross-sectional, observational study of 100 randomly selected retail and wholesale pharmacies (55 from Kathmandu and 45 from Kaski) was conducted for their compliance to provisions of physical premises: cleanliness, ventilation, protection from physical environment, spaciousness and storage facilities. Preliminarily, scoring was done by converting 5-point Likert scale to a 100-point scale as follows: 1?=?0–20, 2?=?21–40, 3?=?41–60, 4?=?61–80 and 5?=?81–100. These scores were then reported as poor (score???40), below average (score of 41–49), average (score of 50), above average (score of 51–60) and good (score???61). Cronbach’s alpha for retails and wholesales obtained was .720 and .757, respectively.Results:In wholesales, protection from...