Attitudes of pharmacy students towards patient safety: a cross-sectional study from six developing countries
Objective To evaluate the attitudes of undergraduate pharmacy students towards patient safety in six developing countries.Design A cross-sectional study.Setting Participants were enrolled from the participating universities in six countries.Participants Undergraduate pharmacy students from the parti...
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| author | Abdallah Y Naser Hassan Alwafi Zahra Khalil Alsairafi Ahmed Awaisu Oriana Awwad Eman Zmaily Dahmash Salman Hussain Hamad S Alyami Alaa Alsharif Avinash Kumar Singh Fatima B Jeragh-Alhaddad Angga Prawira Kautsar Amal Khaleel AbuAlhommos |
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| description | Objective To evaluate the attitudes of undergraduate pharmacy students towards patient safety in six developing countries.Design A cross-sectional study.Setting Participants were enrolled from the participating universities in six countries.Participants Undergraduate pharmacy students from the participating universities in six developing countries (Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, India and Indonesia) were invited to participate in the study between October 2018 and September 2019.Primary outcome Attitudes towards patient safety was measured using 14-item questionnaire that contained five subscales: being quality-improvement focused, internalising errors regardless of harm, value of contextual learning, acceptability of questioning more senior healthcare professionals’ behaviour and attitude towards open disclosure. Multiple-linear regression analysis was used to identify predictors of positive attitudes towards patient safety.Results A total of 2595 students participated in this study (1044 from Jordan, 514 from Saudi Arabia, 134 from Kuwait, 61 from Qatar, 416 from India and 429 from Indonesia). Overall, the pharmacy students reported a positive attitude towards patient safety with a mean score of 37.4 (SD=7.0) out of 56 (66.8%). The ‘being quality-improvement focused’ subscale had the highest score, 75.6%. The subscale with the lowest score was ‘internalising errors regardless of harm’, 49.2%. Female students had significantly better attitudes towards patient safety scores compared with male students (p=0.001). Being at a higher level of study and involvement in or witnessing harm to patients while practising were important predictors of negative attitudes towards patient safety (p<0.001).Conclusion Patient safety content should be covered comprehensively in pharmacy curricula and reinforced in each year of study. This should be more focused on students in their final year of study and who have started their training. This will ensure that the next generation of pharmacists are equipped with the requisite knowledge, core competencies and attitudes to ensure optimal patient safety when they practice. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2a49b4a3f3a547d1949cd6de908cf1092024-11-22T17:15:09ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Open2044-60552020-12-01101210.1136/bmjopen-2020-039459Attitudes of pharmacy students towards patient safety: a cross-sectional study from six developing countriesAbdallah Y Naser0Hassan Alwafi1Zahra Khalil Alsairafi2Ahmed Awaisu3Oriana Awwad4Eman Zmaily Dahmash5Salman Hussain6Hamad S Alyami7Alaa Alsharif8Avinash Kumar Singh9Fatima B Jeragh-Alhaddad10Angga Prawira Kautsar11Amal Khaleel AbuAlhommos12Department of Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences and Clinical Pharmacy, Isra University, Amman, JordanFaculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, Kuwait, KuwaitDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy and Practice, College of Pharmacy, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, QatarDepartment of Biopharmaceutics and Clinical Pharmacy, The University of Jordan, Amman, JordanDepartment of Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences and Clinical Pharmacy, Isra University, Amman, JordanCzech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation (Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech EBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence, Masaryk University GRADE Centre), Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech RepublicDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Najran University, Najran, Saudi ArabiaResearch Department of Practice and Policy, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UKDepartment of Pharmaceutical Medicine (Division of Pharmacology), School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, IndiaDepartment of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, Kuwait, KuwaitFaculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Jawa Barat, IndonesiaPharmacy Practice Department, Clinical Pharmacy College, King Faisal University, Al-Hasa, Eastern, Saudi ArabiaObjective To evaluate the attitudes of undergraduate pharmacy students towards patient safety in six developing countries.Design A cross-sectional study.Setting Participants were enrolled from the participating universities in six countries.Participants Undergraduate pharmacy students from the participating universities in six developing countries (Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, India and Indonesia) were invited to participate in the study between October 2018 and September 2019.Primary outcome Attitudes towards patient safety was measured using 14-item questionnaire that contained five subscales: being quality-improvement focused, internalising errors regardless of harm, value of contextual learning, acceptability of questioning more senior healthcare professionals’ behaviour and attitude towards open disclosure. Multiple-linear regression analysis was used to identify predictors of positive attitudes towards patient safety.Results A total of 2595 students participated in this study (1044 from Jordan, 514 from Saudi Arabia, 134 from Kuwait, 61 from Qatar, 416 from India and 429 from Indonesia). Overall, the pharmacy students reported a positive attitude towards patient safety with a mean score of 37.4 (SD=7.0) out of 56 (66.8%). The ‘being quality-improvement focused’ subscale had the highest score, 75.6%. The subscale with the lowest score was ‘internalising errors regardless of harm’, 49.2%. Female students had significantly better attitudes towards patient safety scores compared with male students (p=0.001). Being at a higher level of study and involvement in or witnessing harm to patients while practising were important predictors of negative attitudes towards patient safety (p<0.001).Conclusion Patient safety content should be covered comprehensively in pharmacy curricula and reinforced in each year of study. This should be more focused on students in their final year of study and who have started their training. This will ensure that the next generation of pharmacists are equipped with the requisite knowledge, core competencies and attitudes to ensure optimal patient safety when they practice.https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/12/e039459.full |
| spellingShingle | Abdallah Y Naser Hassan Alwafi Zahra Khalil Alsairafi Ahmed Awaisu Oriana Awwad Eman Zmaily Dahmash Salman Hussain Hamad S Alyami Alaa Alsharif Avinash Kumar Singh Fatima B Jeragh-Alhaddad Angga Prawira Kautsar Amal Khaleel AbuAlhommos Attitudes of pharmacy students towards patient safety: a cross-sectional study from six developing countries BMJ Open |
| title | Attitudes of pharmacy students towards patient safety: a cross-sectional study from six developing countries |
| title_full | Attitudes of pharmacy students towards patient safety: a cross-sectional study from six developing countries |
| title_fullStr | Attitudes of pharmacy students towards patient safety: a cross-sectional study from six developing countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Attitudes of pharmacy students towards patient safety: a cross-sectional study from six developing countries |
| title_short | Attitudes of pharmacy students towards patient safety: a cross-sectional study from six developing countries |
| title_sort | attitudes of pharmacy students towards patient safety a cross sectional study from six developing countries |
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