48 Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Community Medicine Vol. 3 ● Issue 2 ● Apr-Jun 2017 ● www.jppcm.org Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Community Medicine.2017, 3(2):48-52 • http://dx.doi.org/10.5530/jppcm.2017.2.13 OPEN ACCESS SHORT COMMUNICATION e-ISSN: 2455-3255 Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Measuring Devices of Oral Liquid Medications in the Population of District East Karachi, Pakistan Faiz Ullah Khan 1* , Asim Ur Rehman 1 , Haroon Rashid 2 , Zahid Khan 3 , Fazal Rabbi 4 , Syed Mujahid Shah 5 1 Department of Pharmacy, Quaid-i- Azam University, Islamabad, PAKISTAN. 2 Hayat Abad Medical Complex (HMC), Peshawar KPK, PAKISTAN. 3 Faculty of Pharmacy Federal Urdu University of Arts Science & Technology, Karachi, PAKISTAN. 4 Shaheed Zulfqar Ali Bhutto Medical University, Islamabad, PAKISTAN. 5 District Head Quarter Hospital Alpurai District Shangla KPK, PAKISTAN. Abstract Background: Most of the people have poor knowledge and inability to administer liquid medications properly which can lead to medication errors and poor health outcomes as laymen and even health care professionals hardly know about the differences among teaspoon (5ml), tablespoon (15ml) and other measuring devices which have great differences in volumes. Objective: To assess knowledge attitude and practice of measuring devices in the population of district east (Gulshan Iqbal and Jamshed Town) Karachi. Methods: A descriptive survey was conducted and total 98 participants were interviewed and information’s were collected on designed questionnaires proforma. Results: In current results cough syrup were used (74.40%), antacids (12.24%) and (20.40%) multivitamins syrups with different measuring measuring devices such as teaspoons (61.22%), table spoons (33.67%) and other oral cups, syringes and dropper (7.14%) and (25.51%) people had experienced with wrong doses and suffered from ADR’s. Conclusion: Awareness and consciousness about appropriate dosing is important in the use of oral liquid medication, the current study was planned to examine the dosing accurateness of measuring devices used for liquid oral medications above an extensive series of dosing volumes. Key Words: ADR’s, Teaspoons, Tablespoons, Pharmacist, Pakistan. INTRODUCTION In Pakistan the data regarding use of measuring its devices using for oral liquid dosage form is very rare. Need proper attention in order to provide basic information’s regarding use of oral liquid medication. Liquid preparations are frequently use in infants, adolescence and even in geriatrics. Slightly deviations from normal dose may lead to fatalness. Parents are responsible for correct dose to their children. Medicines has no harm till to administration and improper spoons out doses owed to medication errors .[1-3] Medication errors may not be fully eradicated but the possibility of error Received: 16 December 2016 Accepted: 05 February, 2017 *Correspondence to: Dr. Faiz Ullah Khan, Department of Pharmacy, Quaid-i- Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan Email: faiz.khan5@hotmail.com Copyright: © the author(s),publisher and licensee Indian Academy of Pharmacists. This is an open- access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Publishing Partner : EManuscript [www.emanuscript.in] Published in Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Community Medicine.2017, 3(2):43-47 • http://dx.doi.org/10.5530/jppcm.2016.4.4