Pharmacy students’ readiness and preparedness to contribute during disasters: a cross-sectional two institutional study from the UAE

IF 2.4 Q3 PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY

Pharmacy Practice-Granada Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI:10.18549/pharmpract.2023.2.2817

Alaa Farajalla, M. Alomar, Subish Palaian, M. M. Al-Ahmad, M. I. Mohamed Ibrahim

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Abstract

Background: Pharmacists involvement in disaster management has been acknowledged in the literature for their involvement in various clinical and non-clinical services. Future pharmacists are expected to be skill full in handling medicine disasters. This study aimed at investigating the knowledge, attitude, and readiness of pharmacy students to contribute to disasters in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Methods: A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted in two pharmacy colleges in the UAE using a pre-validated electronic questionnaire. Data were collected using simple random sampling from February 2021 to November 2021. The questionnaire consisted of five sections: demographic information, knowledge, attitude, and readiness to practice with perceived barriers. The Likert data were not normally distributed (Shapiro-Wilk test, p<0.05) and hence analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis test at alpha=0.05. Results: A total of 258 pharmacy students were surveyed. The majority were fourth-year students (51.2%, n = 132) with a mean (SD) age of 20.46 [2.35] years. The average score for total knowledge was 155.3 (60.2%), with no statistical differences between groups. The median interquartile range (IQR) scores for total attitude, total readiness to practice, and barriers to disaster medicine were 4. Conclusions: Students exhibited varying levels of knowledge and expressed a positive attitude and willingness to practice disaster medicine. Inclusion of various educational modules in pharmacy curricula could help to better prepare students for the

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药学学生在灾难期间的准备和准备:来自阿联酋的横断面两机构研究

背景:药剂师参与灾害管理已经在文献中承认他们参与各种临床和非临床服务。未来的药剂师应该能够熟练地处理药物灾难。本研究旨在调查阿拉伯联合大公国(UAE)药学专业学生对救灾的知识、态度和准备情况。方法:在阿联酋的两所药学院进行了定量、描述性、横断面研究，采用预先验证的电子问卷。数据采集时间为2021年2月至2021年11月，采用简单随机抽样方法。问卷由五个部分组成:人口统计信息、知识、态度和对感知障碍的实践准备。Likert数据非正态分布(Shapiro-Wilk检验，p<0.05)，因此采用Mann-Whitney U检验和Kruskal Wallis检验，alpha=0.05。结果:共调查了258名药学专业学生。以四年级学生为主(51.2%，n = 132)，平均(SD)年龄为20.46[2.35]岁。总知识平均得分为155.3分(60.2%)，组间差异无统计学意义。总态度、总实践准备和灾难医学障碍的中位数四分位数范围(IQR)得分为4。结论:学生表现出不同程度的知识水平，并表现出积极的态度和意愿从事灾害医学实践。在药剂学课程中加入不同的教育模块可以帮助学生更好地为将来的工作做好准备

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Pharmacy Practice-Granada PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY-

CiteScore

3.90

自引率

4.00%

发文量

113

审稿时长

20 weeks

期刊介绍： Pharmacy Practice is a free full-text peer-reviewed journal with a scope on pharmacy practice. Pharmacy Practice is published quarterly. Pharmacy Practice does not charge and will never charge any publication fee or article processing charge (APC) to the authors. The current and future absence of any article processing charges (APCs) is signed in the MoU with the Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation (CPPI) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Pharmacy. Pharmacy Practice is the consequence of the efforts of a number of colleagues from different Universities who belief in collaborative publishing: no one pays, no one receives. Although focusing on the practice of pharmacy, Pharmacy Practice covers a wide range of pharmacy activities, among them and not being comprehensive, clinical pharmacy, pharmaceutical care, social pharmacy, pharmacy education, process and outcome research, health promotion and education, health informatics, pharmacoepidemiology, etc.