Saleem Fahad, Hassali Mohamed Azmi, Ibrahim Zehan Shahnaz, Rasheedy Alian A L, Aljadhey Hisham
Discipline of Social and Administrative Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800, Penang, Malaysia,
J Community Health. 2015 Apr;40(2):285-90. doi: 10.1007/s10900-014-9930-y.
The present study aims to explore the perceptions and understanding of future pharmacists towards volunteerism in health promotional activities. The study was designed as a cross sectional, descriptive survey. All pharmacy undergraduates (n = 293) from the first, second and third professional years enrolled at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia were targeted for the study. A pre validated, 15-itemed questionnaire was used for data collection and was analysed by using SPSS. Dichotomous groups were compared with Mann-Whitney U test. The Jonckheere-Terpstra test was used to evaluate the trend of association. Where significant associations were reported, effect size was calculated by using Kendall tau correlation coefficient. p value of <0.05 was considered to be of statistical significance. Out of 200 respondents, 185 completed the study with a response rate of 92.5 %. Agreement with mandatory status of volunteerism at community services was significant with gender (p = 0.003) and year of study (p = 0.045). Confidence in performing health promotional activities (p = 0.001, τ = 0.155) and needed communication skills during health promotional activities (p = 0.022, τ = 0.322) were also significantly associated with year of study with a moderate positive trend from junior to senior classes. Although pharmacy undergraduates showed positive interest and will to volunteer at the health promotional programs, certain issues were also highlighted. Therefore, in order to address these challenges, pharmacy curriculum needs to include a greater emphasis on role of pharmacists in public health. This can be achieved by having a dedicated core course as part of pharmacy curriculum.
本研究旨在探索未来药剂师对健康促进活动中志愿服务的认知和理解。该研究设计为横断面描述性调查。马来西亚理科大学药学院一年级、二年级和三年级的所有药学本科学生（n = 293）被纳入研究对象。采用一份经过预验证的包含15个条目的问卷进行数据收集，并使用SPSS进行分析。二分变量组采用曼-惠特尼U检验进行比较。琼克尔-特普斯特拉检验用于评估关联趋势。当报告有显著关联时，使用肯德尔tau相关系数计算效应大小。p值<0.05被认为具有统计学意义。在200名受访者中，185人完成了研究，回复率为92.5%。在社区服务中对志愿服务强制地位的认同在性别（p = 0.003）和学习年份（p = 0.045）方面存在显著差异。开展健康促进活动的信心（p = 0.001，τ = 0.155）以及在健康促进活动中所需的沟通技巧（p = 0.022，τ = 0.322）也与学习年份显著相关，从低年级到高年级呈现出适度的正向趋势。尽管药学本科学生对健康促进项目的志愿服务表现出积极的兴趣和意愿，但也突出了一些问题。因此，为应对这些挑战，药学课程需要更加强调药剂师在公共卫生中的作用。这可以通过在药学课程中设置一门专门的核心课程来实现。
