The future of pharmaceutical care in Malaysia: pharmacy students’ perspectives

Objective: To investigate the attitudes of pharmacy students toward pharmaceutical care (PC), perceptions of their preparedness level and barriers to the provision of PC in Malaysia. Methods: A cross-sectional study conducted on third and fourth-year pharmacy students of International Islamic Uni...

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Main Authors:	Elnaem, Mohamed Hassan, Jamshed, Shazia Qasim, Elkalmi, Ramadan Mohamed Mahmod
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	International Pharmaceutical Federation 2017
Subjects:	L Education (General) RS Pharmacy and materia medica
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spelling	iium-583082018-01-04T10:06:01Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/58308/ The future of pharmaceutical care in Malaysia: pharmacy students’ perspectives Elnaem, Mohamed Hassan Jamshed, Shazia Qasim Elkalmi, Ramadan Mohamed Mahmod L Education (General) RS Pharmacy and materia medica Objective: To investigate the attitudes of pharmacy students toward pharmaceutical care (PC), perceptions of their preparedness level and barriers to the provision of PC in Malaysia. Methods: A cross-sectional study conducted on third and fourth-year pharmacy students of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). The main instrument used was standard Pharmaceutical Care Attitudes Survey (PCAS) with minor modifications for local suitability. A pilot study conducted and reliability and validity of the modified instrument assessed. SPSS, version 21 was used for data analysis. Results: Reliability coefficient computed to be 0.897. The total number of students was 227. Overall the response rate was 95.05%. Interestingly, all the student pharmacists reported a positive attitude towards the practice of PC. Most student pharmacists stated good perceptions of preparedness towards the provision of PC with the overall mean scores rating of 3.0. The majority agreed on the importance of all PC activities and perceived that lack of physicians' trust/ confidence in the pharmacists' abilities is a major barrier to providing PC in Malaysia. Conclusion: Pharmacy students reflected positive attitudes and perceptions towards PC. Students felt favourable in practicing clinical PC activities rather than administrative ones. Lack of physicians’ trust or confidence in the pharmacists’ abilities was identified as a major barrier to the implementation of PC. This can be improved through better use of inter-professional education which is a first step in generating collaborative practice-oriented workforce. International Pharmaceutical Federation 2017-09-07 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/58308/1/Pharmaceutical%20care%20paper%20PE%2007092017.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/58308/7/58308_The%20future%20of%20pharmaceutical%20care%20in%20Malaysia_SCOPUS.pdf Elnaem, Mohamed Hassan and Jamshed, Shazia Qasim and Elkalmi, Ramadan Mohamed Mahmod (2017) The future of pharmaceutical care in Malaysia: pharmacy students’ perspectives. Pharmacy Education, 17 (1). pp. 215-222. ISSN 1477-2701 http://pharmacyeducationjournal.org/pharmacyeducation/article/view/461/438
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spellingShingle	L Education (General) RS Pharmacy and materia medica Elnaem, Mohamed Hassan Jamshed, Shazia Qasim Elkalmi, Ramadan Mohamed Mahmod The future of pharmaceutical care in Malaysia: pharmacy students’ perspectives
description	Objective: To investigate the attitudes of pharmacy students toward pharmaceutical care (PC), perceptions of their preparedness level and barriers to the provision of PC in Malaysia. Methods: A cross-sectional study conducted on third and fourth-year pharmacy students of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). The main instrument used was standard Pharmaceutical Care Attitudes Survey (PCAS) with minor modifications for local suitability. A pilot study conducted and reliability and validity of the modified instrument assessed. SPSS, version 21 was used for data analysis. Results: Reliability coefficient computed to be 0.897. The total number of students was 227. Overall the response rate was 95.05%. Interestingly, all the student pharmacists reported a positive attitude towards the practice of PC. Most student pharmacists stated good perceptions of preparedness towards the provision of PC with the overall mean scores rating of 3.0. The majority agreed on the importance of all PC activities and perceived that lack of physicians' trust/ confidence in the pharmacists' abilities is a major barrier to providing PC in Malaysia. Conclusion: Pharmacy students reflected positive attitudes and perceptions towards PC. Students felt favourable in practicing clinical PC activities rather than administrative ones. Lack of physicians’ trust or confidence in the pharmacists’ abilities was identified as a major barrier to the implementation of PC. This can be improved through better use of inter-professional education which is a first step in generating collaborative practice-oriented workforce.
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author	Elnaem, Mohamed Hassan Jamshed, Shazia Qasim Elkalmi, Ramadan Mohamed Mahmod
author_facet	Elnaem, Mohamed Hassan Jamshed, Shazia Qasim Elkalmi, Ramadan Mohamed Mahmod
author_sort	Elnaem, Mohamed Hassan
title	The future of pharmaceutical care in Malaysia: pharmacy students’ perspectives
title_short	The future of pharmaceutical care in Malaysia: pharmacy students’ perspectives
title_full	The future of pharmaceutical care in Malaysia: pharmacy students’ perspectives
title_fullStr	The future of pharmaceutical care in Malaysia: pharmacy students’ perspectives
title_full_unstemmed	The future of pharmaceutical care in Malaysia: pharmacy students’ perspectives
title_sort	future of pharmaceutical care in malaysia: pharmacy students’ perspectives
publisher	International Pharmaceutical Federation
publishDate	2017
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