Pharmacists’ knowledge, attitude and involvement in palliative care in selected tertiary hospitals in southwestern Nigeria

Table 6 Association among pharmacists with or without palliative care training and attitude-related statements toward palliative care

	Previous training	N	Mean Rank	MW Up-value
1.I enjoy working in palliative care	Yes	21	30.79
1.I enjoy working in palliative care	No	85	59.11	<0.001*
2. I feel relaxed around people receiving palliative care	Yes	21	67.57
2. I feel relaxed around people receiving palliative care	No	81	47.33	0.003*
3. I feel confident in managing symptoms in palliative care	Yes	21	58.12
3. I feel confident in managing symptoms in palliative care	No	83	51.08	0.299
4. I feel comfortable talking about dying to a patient receiving palliative care	Yes	21	58.36
	No	82	50.37	0.251
5. I don’t mind working in palliative care despite its involvement in managing people with life-limiting illness	Yes	21	56.45
	No	84	52.14	0.525
6. There is a difference between providing palliative care service and normal hospital care	Yes	21	49.40
	No	85	54.51	0.457
7. I am not comfortable touching people with terminal illness	Yes	21	57.76
	No	83	51.17	0.335
8. I don’t believe that pharmacists have any role to play as a member of palliative care team	Yes	21	53.12
	No	85	53.59	0.940
9. I feel frustrated because I do not know how to help people receiving palliative care	Yes	21	58.10
	No	83	51.08	0.303
10. It is not rewarding to work with people who are receiving palliative care	Yes	21	56.86
	No	84	52.04	0.481
11. I am not familiar with pain symptoms necessary for palliative care	Yes	21	69.24
	No	82	47.59	0.002*
12. Working with terminally ill patients is sad and depressing	Yes	21	58.76
	No	83	50.92	0.267
13. Emotionally I don’t fit into palliative care	Yes	20	55.88
13. Emotionally I don’t fit into palliative care	No	81	49.80	0.391

N Number, * Significant difference with Mann Whitney U (MWU) test. Higher mean rank for positive statements (1–6) indicate those who mostly agreed with the corresponding statement, while higher mean rank for negative statements (7–13) suggest those who least agreed with the corresponding statement, level of statistical significance p < 0.05

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