title: Eritrean pharmacists' job satisfaction and their attitude to re-professionalize pharmacy in to pharmaceutical care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Job satisfaction is a very important contributing factor for a person's productivity and motivation. Naturally, if people are not satisfied with what they practice, they will probably need to change or reshape their way of practice at a certain period in time. Pharmacists are not exception to this principle and have been observed to re-professionalize pharmacy in to clinical and/or pharmaceutical care in many parts of the world. Thus, this survey aims to investigate the Eritrean pharmacists' current level of job satisfaction and their views on re-professionalization of pharmacy.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional survey was conducted among all Eritrean pharmacists who reside inside Eritrea.
  
  
  METHODS
  Opinion of pharmacists about job satisfaction and re-professionalization of pharmacy into pharmaceutical care.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Out of the 95 questionnaires distributed 86 were completed and returned giving a response rate of 90.5 %. Nearly three fourth of the respondents (71 %) have chosen pharmacy as their ever profession and they want to encourage their children or their close relatives to pursue it as a career. Sixty four percent of the pharmacists are either partially or fully unsatisfied to spend the remainder of their working life in a job like their current one and this has a strong statistical association with less years of experience (p = 0.007) and place of work of the younger pharmacists (p = 0.008). Majority of the study participants (86 %) believe there is a great mismatch between pharmacists' level of education and level of practice in the work area. This was significant with lower age (p = 0.002), less years of experience (p = 0.006) and later year of admission to university (p = 0.000). Ninety five percent of the pharmacists perceive that the current role of the Eritrean pharmacists needs to be redefined and re-oriented.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although the Eritrean pharmacists are proud to be pharmacy professionals, they want to redefine and reorient their current role into pharmaceutical care.
authors: School of Pharmacy, Asmara College of Health Sciences, Asmara, Eritrea, mteklae@yahoo.com.
authors: Merhawi Teklai
authors: MT
authors: Awalom
authors: Abel Fekadu
authors: AF
authors: Tesfa
authors: Medhanie Elias
authors: ME
authors: Kidane
authors: Mulugeta Russom
authors: MR
authors: Ghebremedhin
authors: Ambesajir Habtemichael
authors: AH
authors: Teklesenbet
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D019017:Eritrea / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services / Q000639:trends*; D010595:Pharmacists / Q000523:psychology / Q000639:trends*; D010604:Pharmacy / Q000639:trends*; D024382:Professional Role / Q000523:psychology
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