Open AccessDo Males and Females Differ in Terms of Their KAP Regarding Halal Pharmaceuticals?
Author(s) -
Saleha Sadeeqa,
Azmi Sarriff
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of public health science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2620-4126
pISSN - 2252-8806
DOI - 10.11591/ijphs.v3i3.4688
Subject(s) - perception , significant difference , psychology , value (mathematics) , demography , medicine , sociology , machine learning , computer science , neuroscience
There is an increasing awareness amongst Muslim consumers to avoid all items containing non-Halal ingredients including medications. Male and female are different both biologically and psychologically, it therefore, needed for a study to compare KAP of males and females regarding Halal pharmaceuticals. Methods : This was a cross-sectional study using a structured , self-administered questionnaires to compare the knowledge, attitude & perception regarding Halal pharmaceuticals, among males and females in Penang state of Malaysia. Results revealed that there is no significance difference in the knowledge, attitude and perception of males and females. This is concluded that males and females are equally aware and have same attitude and perception regarding Halal pharmaceuticals. P value of .05 or less was taken as statistically significant.