An investigation of academic resilience, resilience, and empathy in pharmacy students: Implications for pharmacy education

IF 0.5 Q4 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES

Pharmacy Education Pub Date : 2024-04-12 DOI:10.46542/pe.2024.241.226237

Syafiqah Nadiah Halimi, Ardalan Mirzaei, Debra Rowett, Karen Luetsch

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Background: Resilience supports pharmacists and students in thriving in challenging healthcare and academic environments. Empathy is necessary to provide patient-centred care. Knowledge of how these attributes influence pharmacy students is limited, and correlations between academic resilience, empathy, and academic success continue to be explored. Methods: This study explores the relationships between levels of academic resilience, resilience, and empathy with the academic achievements of pharmacy students at a Malaysian university. Participants were pharmacy students enrolled from 2020/2021 to 2022/2023. Academic resilience was assessed using the Academic-Pharmacy-Resilience-Scale-16, resilience through the Brief-Resilience-Scale, and empathy with the Kiersma-Chen Empathy-Scale. Scores were related to students’ academic grades. Both descriptive and inferential statistical methods were utilised to analyse associations among variables. Results: Responses were received from 359 students. The levels of resilience of students were deemed to be moderate. Small, statistically significant variations were found in academic resilience scores across cohorts, resilience scores, and empathy scores in relation to gender. Academic resilience showed a correlation to academic grades. Conclusion: Academic resilience positively correlated with academic success and was positively influenced by work experience. Strengthening students’ resilience in pharmacy education may support their academic achievement, particularly during times of change like the COVID-19 pandemic.

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对药学专业学生的学习适应力、复原力和同理心的调查：对药学教育的启示

背景：复原力有助于药剂师和学生在充满挑战的医疗保健和学术环境中茁壮成长。移情能力是提供以患者为中心的护理所必需的。关于这些特质如何影响药剂学学生的知识还很有限，学业复原力、同理心和学业成功之间的相关性仍有待探索：本研究探讨了马来西亚一所大学药剂学专业学生的学业适应力、复原力和同理心水平与学业成绩之间的关系。参与者为2020/2021至2022/2023年入学的药剂学专业学生。学业复原力采用学业-药学-复原力量表-16 进行评估，复原力采用简易复原力量表进行评估，移情采用 Kiersma-Chen 移情量表进行评估。得分与学生的学业成绩相关。采用描述性和推论性统计方法分析变量之间的关联：共收到 359 名学生的回复。学生的抗挫折能力被认为处于中等水平。在各组学生的学业抗逆力得分、抗逆力得分和移情得分中，发现了与性别有关的微小而有统计学意义的差异。学业适应力与学习成绩有一定的相关性：学术复原力与学业成绩呈正相关，并受到工作经验的积极影响。在药学教育中加强学生的抗逆力可能有助于他们取得学业成绩，尤其是在 COVID-19 大流行这样的变革时期。

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Pharmacy Education EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES-

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0.80

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20.00%

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174

期刊介绍： Pharmacy Education journal provides a research, development and evaluation forum for communication between academic teachers, researchers and practitioners in professional and pharmacy education, with an emphasis on new and established teaching and learning methods, new curriculum and syllabus directions, educational outcomes, guidance on structuring courses and assessing achievement, and workforce development. It is a peer-reviewed online open access platform for the dissemination of new ideas in professional pharmacy education and workforce development. Pharmacy Education supports Open Access (OA): free, unrestricted online access to research outputs. Readers are able to access the Journal and individual published articles for free - there are no subscription fees or ''pay per view'' charges. Authors wishing to publish their work in Pharmacy Education do so without incurring any financial costs.