The Effect of Demographic and Social Factors on the Decision‐Making of Community Pharmacists in Ethical Dilemmas

Objective: The objective of the study is to investigate the effect of demographic and social factors on the decision‐making of community pharmacists when confronted with ethical dilemmas during their professional practice. Methods: This was a questionnaire‐based, cross‐sectional study. A total of 1057 community pharmacists were approached. The final participants were 742. Independent‐sample t‐test and one‐way analysis of variance were used to analyze the factors (age, gender, work experience, education qualification, number of pharmacists per pharmacy, and pharmacy location). Findings: Older pharmacists, experienced pharmacists, and urban pharmacists have less ethical dilemma compared to the younger pharmacists, less work experience pharmacists, and rural pharmacists, respectively. Conclusion: Individual factors such as age, gender, work experience, and educational level and organizational factors such as the number of pharmacists in a pharmacy and location of pharmacy may influence the ethical dilemma of community pharmacists.