Table 1.

The Role of Community Pharmacists Toward Pharmaceutical Care Services

Country	Author	The Issue	Findings
Canada	(Youssef et al 2021)27	Immunization	More than half of community pharmacists are willing to start the administration of vaccines.
Denmark	(Knudsen et al 2007)17	Medication errors	Most potential errors identified occurred during the dispensing process.
England	(Saramunee et al 2014)19	Public health services and influencing factors	A crucial factor identified was the perception of health professionals and the public towards pharmacist competency, unavailable privacy, workload, and inappropriate profit.
Japan	(Yamamura et al 2021)23	Reproductive Health Services	Most pharmacists recognized the importance of their role as sexual and reproductive healthcare advisors.
Kuwait	(Al Haqan et al 2017)26	Diabetes management	Positive attitudes toward diabetes management and counseling on medication administration were provided. However, hypoglycemia management was rarely provided.
Malaysia	(Blebil et al 2020)25	Oral health consultation	Community pharmacists provide oral health consultations, OTC treatments, and health promotion. However, training in the field was needed.
Pakistan	(Hussain et al 2011)18	Medication counseling and dispensing	There was no significant difference between practitioners regarding medication counseling.
USA	(Goldstone et al 2021)22	Psychiatric Care accessibility	Community pharmacists could help control psychotic patients in opioid misuse among children and transitions of care coordination between hospitals and communities.
USA	(Watkins et al 2017)24	Mental health disorder	Pharmacists had a positive attitude toward working with the mentally disordered population
USA	(O’Neal et al 2013)28	Obesity management and control	Appropriate knowledge average level identified. However, pharmacists showed no significant difference in overweight management knowledge and beliefs.

Abbreviation: OTC, Over the Counter.