Department of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy, International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
BPharm (Hons.,) graduate, School of Pharmacy, International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
PLoS One. 2017 Apr 18;12(4):e0176095. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176095. eCollection 2017.
To measure pharmacy students' anxiety towards research and how academic support, academic effort, attitude and self-efficacy influence their research anxiety.
A cross-sectional study was conducted with undergraduate final year students of pharmacy using a convenient sampling method. A validated self-administered questionnaire was used.
Response rate for this study was 85.9% (128 students from a population of 149). The participants agreed that they read literature to understand research, but did not attend research-related coursework. Most participants (91.4%) felt that they were under stress while doing research. Almost all participants (97.6%) felt that they were doing very badly during their data analysis or they may fail their research projects. The majority of participants agreed that help from the lecturers' and friends in research give emotional support for their research activities.
Academic support for pharmacy students, along with their additional academic effort will improve the students' self-efficacy and reduce research anxiety.
测量药学专业学生对研究的焦虑程度,以及学术支持、学术努力、态度和自我效能感如何影响他们的研究焦虑。
采用横断面研究方法,对药学专业最后一年的本科生进行了便利抽样。使用了一份经过验证的自我管理式问卷。
本研究的回复率为 85.9%(149 名学生中的 128 名)。参与者同意他们阅读文献以了解研究,但不参加与研究相关的课程。大多数参与者(91.4%)表示,他们在做研究时感到有压力。几乎所有的参与者(97.6%)都觉得在数据分析时自己做得非常差,或者可能会导致研究项目失败。大多数参与者认为,来自讲师和朋友在研究方面的帮助为他们的研究活动提供了情感支持。
为药学专业学生提供学术支持,以及他们额外的学术努力,将提高学生的自我效能感并降低研究焦虑。