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Table 2 Characteristic of studies included in the review

From: Cancer awareness among community pharmacist: a systematic review

Lead author

Year

Country

Sample description

Type of cancer

Duration of Study

Study design

Sample size

Conclusion

Ibrahim

2013

UAE

Community pharmacies

Breast

24 weeks

Cross sectional survey

335

Community Pharmacists have low level of knowledge in breast cancer. Efforts should be made on providing pharmacists with high quality

Breast cancer continuous education.

Beshir

2012

Malaysia

Independent community pharmacies

Breast

20 weeks

Cross sectional survey

35

Community pharmacists have low breast cancer knowledge which can prevent actualisation of pharmacist role in breast cancer education. Therefore further work should focus on providing pharmacists with high quality breast cancer continuous education.

EL Hajj

2011

Qatar

Community pharmacies

Breast

12 weeks

Descriptive cross sectional survey

195

Low breast cancer knowledge was recorded among community pharmacists. Further work should focus on providing pharmacists with breast cancer continuous education.

Ayoub

2016

Jordan

Commercial community pharmacies

Breast

20 weeks

Descriptive cross sectional survey

1113

There is knowledge gap pertaining to breast cancer and screening guidelines. Pharmacist must improve their knowledge through better undergraduate oncology education and intensive continuous education programmes