Table 5.

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

Barriers	Component
	1	2	3	4	5
Reduced workforce in the pharmacy	0.832
Time constraints	0.721
Pharmacists extended working hours	0.554
Patient’s pandemics related panic		0.768
Patients buying unnecessary and excessive products		0.766
Misinformation around COVID-19 potential treatment options		0.544
Worrying about getting infected with COVID-19			-
Lack of protective equipment in your pharmacy			0.768
Lack of your adequate information on COVID-19			0.750
Price increase from pharmaceutical wholesalers				0.792
Price increase of pharmaceutical products in the pharmacy				0.767
Increased influx of patients to the pharmacy					0.757
Frequent pharmacy inspections by authorities					0.728
Inadequate financial compensation during pandemics					-

^aFourteen 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 barriers to the pharmacist’s provision of services during the COVID-19 pandemic. PCA=Principal component analysis