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. 2021 Dec 15;18(24):13227.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph182413227.

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

Dorota Raczkiewicz  1 , Bartosz Kobuszewski  2 , Beata Sarecka-Hujar  3 , Adrianna Pawełczak-Barszczowska  4 , Iwona Bojar  5
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Polish Pharmacy Students' Readiness, Qualifications, Competences, Relevance, Motivation and Effectiveness to Promote Health in Community Pharmacies

Dorota Raczkiewicz et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

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.

Keywords: health education; health promotion; implementation of pharmaceutical care within the health system; pharmaceutical care; pharmacists; pharmacy; pharmacy students.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Pharmacy students’ mean assessment of qualifications, competences, relevance, motivation and effectiveness in health promotion—items in health knowledge (N = 206). Scale 1–10 where: 1—very low, 10—very high.
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Pharmacy students’ mean assessment of qualifications, competences, relevance, motivation and effectiveness in health promotion—items in disease prevention (N = 206). Scale 1–10 where: 1—very low, 10—very high.
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Pharmacy students’ mean assessment of qualifications, competences, relevance, motivation and effectiveness in health promotion—items in coping with health problems (N = 206). Scale 1–10 where: 1—very low, 10—very high.
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