Determinants of Pharmaceutical Inventory Management Practices: The Case of Public Health Facilities In Dire Dawa City Administration
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Managing stock effectively is important for any organization. Managing pharmaceutical products and materials up to their point of use in health facilities is an important task in order to provide quality healthcare. Without adequate pharmaceuticals inventory management practices, Public Health Facilities run the risk of not being able to provide patients with the most appropriate medication when it is most needed. The General objective of the study was to assess determinants of pharmaceutical Inventory management practices at public health facilities in Dire Dawa City Administration. Descriptive cross sectional study design was used. The study was collected the data from total of 79 pharmacy professionals working in the study area through self-administered questionnaires and probability and non-probability sampling techniques was used to determine 79 respondents for the study. The questionnaire was contained five point Likert scale questions and covered areas of inventory control to come up with good raw data for the research. The collected data were quantitatively analyzed using statistical methods, SPSS 25 version which was commanded to produce frequency, mean and standard deviation. Logistic regression was used to show the relationship between the dependent and independent variables. The study revealed significant effect of management support and information technology on the pharmaceuticals inventory management practices in the study area. Whereas as, staff skill/ competence and documentation/stock keeping did not show significant association in the at Dire Dawa City Administration health facilities. Generally, the Dire Dawa regional health bureau should have to improve the competency of its staffs through appropriate capacity building efforts, coaching, mentoring, and supervision, additionally the top management of the facilities have to allocate appropriate budget for procurement of Pharmaceuticals products to avail the required medicines for the patients.
DOI: 10.20372/nadre:17055
Author: Tesfaye Aweke
Language: English
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7078744888
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