Polish Pharmacy Students’ Readiness, Qualifications, Competences, Relevance, Motivation and Effectiveness to Promote Health in Community Pharmacies

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Beata Sarecka-Hujar¹  Bartosz Kobuszewski²  Dorota Raczkiewicz³  Iwona Bojar⁴  Adrianna Pawełczak-Barszczowska⁵ 

[1] Department of Basic Biomedical Science, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Sosnowiec, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Kasztanowa str 3, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland;Department of Medical Law and Decisions, School of Public Health, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Kleczewska str 61/63, 01-826 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Kleczewska str 61/63, 01-826 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Women’s Health, Institute of Rural Health, Jaczewskiego str 2, 20-090 Lublin, Poland;Zentiva, Bonifraterska str 17, 00-203 Warsaw, Poland;

关键词: pharmacy students;    pharmacy;    pharmacists;    health promotion;    health education;    pharmaceutical care;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph182413227

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Background: One of the parts of the broadly understood pharmaceutical care is health promotion. Therefore, the study aimed to find out how pharmacy students in Poland assess their own readiness to promote health in pharmacies and their own qualifications, competences, relevance, motivation and effectiveness of health promotion in pharmacies. Methods: The study conducted in 2019 comprised 206 pharmacy students from Poland. The authors’ survey questionnaire had two parts: Readiness to promote health in pharmacies; and Qualifications, competences, relevance, motivation and effectiveness of health promotion in pharmacies. Results: The students assessed the system solutions regarding health promotion as insufficient. The highest assessment was given to their own readiness to promote health. In between those was assessment of readiness to promote health by pharmacists as an occupational group. Readiness to promote health at a workplace in a pharmacy was assessed higher than in a local community. The students gave the highest assessments to the relevance and motivation to promote health, and the lowest to their own competences to promote health. In between those, their qualifications and effectiveness to health promotion in pharmacies. were assessed. Conclusions: Pharmacy students consider themselves ready and motivated to promote health, that is of a great importance in their opinion, and they could potentially play an important role in improving the health care of patients.

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