Assessment of Pharmacist Knowledge on Drugs That Cause Change in Urine Color
Background: Urine changes can be caused by a number of things, but they often involve changes to the urine’s color, consistency, or smell. Medication or diet might cause these changes, which are usually harmless.
Aims of study: Assess the pharmacist knowledge toward drugs change urine color and find the relationship between demographic data with the pharmacist knowledge toward drugs change urine color.
Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study involving pharmacists in Baghdad, Iraq. It was performed from 1stNovember 2025 until the end of 30th January 2026 and Included pharmacists in the government health sector (AL Yarmouk teaching hospital and Al Khadhimia teaching hospital) and pharmacists working in private pharmacies at Baghdad. Only 166 pharmacists responded with the questionnaire as they were given a choice to participate. All pharmacists signed the consent form and willing to participate were included in this study.
Results: Pharmacists Knowledge toward drugs that change urine color, the mean pharmacists that were know the right answer 52.1, the mean pharmacists that were wrong answer is 55.7 while the mean pharmacists that were don’t know the answer is 57.5.
Conclusion: We conclude that pharmacist knowledge about drugs that cause change in urine color were fair, the sample were have good knowledge about drugs such as Phenazopyridine, Amitriptyline, Metronidazole, Iron supplement but they have bad knowledge about these drugs: Phenytoin, Metoclopramide, Isoniazid, Cimetidine. Factors such as gender, level of education and pharmacists working are affecting the knowledge of pharmacists.