Community pharmacists' services for women during pregnancy and breast feeding in Kuwait: A cross-sectional study

BMJ Open

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Albassam, Abdullah ^a   Awad, Abdelmoneim ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

breast feeding; community pharmacists; feto maternal self care; Kuwait; lactation; pregnancy; self medication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST ENGORGEMENT; BREAST FEEDING; CONSTIPATION; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; INDIGESTION; INSOMNIA; KUWAIT; LACTATION; LIMB SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTITIS; MILK LEVEL; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OFF LABEL DRUG USE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHARMACIST; PHARMACY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHINORRHEA; SELF CARE; SORE THROAT; VAGINAL PRURITUS; VARICOSIS; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; INFANT; NEWBORN; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KUWAIT; LACTATION; PHARMACY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85040564188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018980     Document Type: Article

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