Table 4.

Drivers to provision of pharmaceutical services during the COVID-19 pandemic^a

Drivers	Component
	1	2	3
Moral and professional obligation ofoffering pharmaceutical assistance	0.835
Professional satisfaction with your contributions to preventing COVID-19	0.699
Opportunity to prove yourselves as being an inseparable part of health professionals	0.575
Measures taken by relevant health institutions	0.564
Better opportunity to use your pharmaceutical skillsand knowledge		0.800
Professional satisfaction with the help you offeredto patients		0.709
Opportunity to elevate your personal, professional image		0.698
Opportunity to elevate the image of the pharmacywhere you work		0.670
Being in line with competition from other pharmacies in the market			0.780
Financial reimbursement you receive during this period			0.529

^aTen variables were considered and were analyzed individually using PCA. The PCA was carried out based on varimax rotation method. Only factors having eigenvalue above one were considered significant and retained. The eigenvalues indicate that the first component provided the highest value. Items in bold indicate the identified major drivers of pharmacist’s provision of services during the COVID-19 pandemic. PCA=Principal component analysis