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Objective: The study intended to assess the impact of educational intervention on knowledge of osteoporosis among female university students of Quetta. Methods: This interventional study was conducted on female university students by using convenience sampling technique. A total of 163 female students were enrolled for the study, these are those female students who did not heard about the disease named as osteoporosis. These subjects were provided with a selfexplanatory brochure that contains basic information regarding osteoporosis. The intervention was completely theoretical in nature. After two days interval participants were contacted again and asked to complete a pre-validated questionnaire containing 20 questions related to osteoporosis knowledge. Descriptive analysis was used to demonstrate the demographic characteristics of the study population. Inferential statistics (Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis tests and Wilcoxon mean rank test, p<0.05) were used to assess the significance among study variables and to assess the impact of educational intervention on knowledge. Results:Average score of knowledge was 14.18 ± 2.7. Although educational intervention had a significant effect on knowledge scores of the respondents (Wilcoxon rank test p<0.005) (considering the pre-intervention knowledge score as zero) certain demographic characteristics (academic degree and living status) does affect knowledge scores of the study respondents. Conclusion: Although adequate improvement of knowledge scores of osteoporosis was reported after educational intervention, yet efforts should be made to bring change in the attitudes and practices of the female students by the help of intensive educational programs based on behavioral learning theories for better disease knowledge and prevention.

Aim: Assessment and enhancement of self efficacy can improve the self management behavior of hypertensive patients. The aim of present study is to translate self-efficacy for managing chronic disease 6-item scale (SEM-CD6) into Urdu and check its validity and reliability. Methodology: A questionnaire based, observational cross sectional study was designed and conducted from March to August 2017 in 5 different Hypertension clinics of Quetta, Pakistan. Instrument was first translated in to Urdu by Forward -Back translation method. Internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha), Descriptive statistics and Principle component analysis were used to check its Psychometric properties. Linear regression models were used to interpret Beta values.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate perception of pharmacist and prescriber regarding traditional role of community pharmacist. Questionnaire based, cross sectional study was conducted which comprised of 428 participants from Quetta, Pakistan. Majority (n=242, 56.5%) of respondents were prescribers while (n=186, 43.5%) were pharmacists with experience of 1 -4 years (n=174, 40.7%). Overall the majority (n= 386, 90.2%) of the participants had positive perception regarding traditional dispensing and traditional counselling (n=314, 73.4%) role of community pharmacist. Concerning the prescribers, majority (n=200, 82.6%) had positive perception regarding traditional dispensing role and traditional counselling role (n=132, 524.5%) while concerning pharmacists, majority (n=186, 100%) had positive perception regarding the traditional dispensing role and traditional counselling (n=182, 97.8%) role of community pharmacist. This study concluded that both prescribers and pharmacists had positive perception regarding traditional role of community pharmacist, and it is recommended that further studies should be conducted regarding extended and clinical role of community pharmacist.