Assessment of Awareness and Understanding of Online Pharmacy Services among Dentists and Patients

Abstract Introduction: Agenda of these online pharmacies is to provide handy and reasonably priced medicines to consumers with a guaranteed safety and security but intentionally or unintentionally doing of wrong things cannot be ruled out. As dentists in close contact with pharmacy business a comparison with patients was in a need, to know their perspective towards online pharmacy. Aim of the study: To Assess the awareness and understanding of Online Pharmacy Services among Dentists and Patients Material and Methods: The data was collected through a close ended pre tested and validated questionnaire consisting of 20 questions, dentists were approached through emails and social media platform whereas patients filled the form themselves at reception area of different private clinics of Alwar City. Results: In this study out of all participants, 56.92 % of dentists 55.88% of patients were employed. Out of all the dentists 45.38 % were graduated and 54.62 % had completed their post-graduation. 48.53 % of patients had completed their degree after schooling. More number of dentists think purchasing dental medicine through online pharmacy would be safe as results of this question was statistically significant (p< 0.05). Conclusion: To conclude we can say that positive perception on online pharmacy mode clearly depends on a socio demographic status of a person irrespective of what occupation he belongs too.