Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Pharmacy, Garden Campus, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan
  • 2 School of Medical and Life Sciences, Sunway University, Jalan Universiti, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
  • 3 Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Practice, College of Pharmacy, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
  • 4 Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Clinical Pharmacy, King Faisal University, AL Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
  • 5 Faculty of Data Science and Information Technology, INTI International University, Nilai, Malaysia
Medicine (Baltimore), 2024 Dec 20;103(51):e41004.
PMID: 39705490 DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000041004

Abstract

Pharmacists, as an integral part of the healthcare team, can play a crucial role in preventing drug-related problems in patients with chronic kidney disease that arise due to inappropriate doses. This study aimed to develop and validate a new tool, the renal dosing questionnaire (RDQ-13), for pharmacists working across hospital, community, and retail pharmacy settings. A cross-sectional study was conducted from January to March 2023 among pharmacists working in different settings. The RDQ-13 scale consists of 3-sections, encompassing demographic details, a knowledge section with 6 domains, each having 4 questions with the choice of "yes/no," an attitude section featuring a Likert scale for 4 items, and a perception section featuring a Likert scale for 3 items. The assessment of construct and discriminative validity was performed along with testing for reliability. The average variance extracted value and the composite reliability value were used for convergent validity. A total of 65 pharmacists completed the RDQ-13, but at retest n = 2 participants were dropped (response rate at retest was 96.9%). Exploratory factor analysis revealed 3-factor loadings with 59.1% of the variance, whereas the Kaiser-Mayer-Olkin value was 0.60. The Cronbach alpha value of 0.700 indicates good internal consistency, whereas the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) for the test and retest showed that most domains/scores were statistically significant (P 

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