Table 3 Graduating pharmacy students’ attitudes toward provision of pharmaceutical care, North west, Ethiopia, 2023
Statement Students’ attitudes towards pharmaceutical care in PCAS item | Response | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SA | A | N | DA | SDA | Mean (SD) | |
All pharmacists should perform PC | 87 (62.1) | 32 (22.9) | 14(10) | 4(2.9) | 3(2.1) | 4.4 (0.94) |
Primary responsibility of pharmacists in health-care setting should be to prevent and solve medication-related problems | 71(50.7) | 57(40.7) | 5(3.6) | 6(4.3) | 1(0.7) | 4.36(0.8) |
Pharmacists’ primary responsibility should be to practice PC | 54(38.6) | 44(31.4) | 20(14.3) | 20(14.3) | 2(1.4) | 3.9(1.11) |
Pharmacy students can perform PC during their clerkship | 45 (32.1) | 49(35) | 17(12.1) | 28(20) | 1(0.7) | 3.78(1.13) |
I think the practice of PC is valuable | 72(51.4) | 32(22.9) | 12(8.6) | 16(11.4) | 8(5.7) | 4.02(1.26) |
Providing PC takes too much time and effort | 46(32.9) | 45(32.1) | 28(20) | 19(13.6) | 2(1.4) | 2.19 (1.1) |
I would like to perform PC as a pharmacist | 66(47.1) | 49(35) | 11(7.9) | 4(2.9) | 10(7.1) | 4.12(1.14) |
Providing PC is professionally rewarding | 53(37.9) | 52(37.1) | 18(12.9) | 5(3.6) | 12(8.6) | 3.9 (1.2) |
I feel that the PC is the right direction for the provision to better care for future | 34(24.3) | 71(50.7) | 19(13.6) | 13(9.3) | 3(2.1) | 3.8 (0.96) |
I feel that PC movement would benefit pharmacists | 42 (30) | 62(44.3) | 22(15.7) | 6(4.3) | 8(5.7) | 3.89(1.1) |
I feel that PC movement will improve patient health | 66(47.1) | 52 (37.1) | 14(10) | 8(5.7) | 0 | 4.23(0.86) |
I feel that practicing PC will benefit my professional pharmacy career as a pharmacy practitioner | 70(50) | 46(32.9) | 12 (8.6) | 2(1.4) | 10(7.1) | 4.2(1.1) |
Providing PC is not worth the additional workload that it places on the pharmacist | 42(30) | 31 (22.1) | 32(22.9) | 23(16.4) | 12(8.6) | 2.5 (1.3) |