Tegegn Henok Getachew, Abebe Tamrat Befekadu, Ayalew Mohammed Biset, Bhagavathula Akshaya Srikanth
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
Drug Healthc Patient Saf. 2017 May 8;9:19-24. doi: 10.2147/DHPS.S128137. eCollection 2017.
Patient safety is a major health care concern and is being included in an undergraduate curriculum as it plays a major role in lessening harm. Therefore, we aim to assess the attitude of pharmacy students toward patient safety.
A cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire containing 21 items was conducted at the University of Gondar among fourth and fifth year students. Data analysis was performed to calculate mean, standard deviation, percentages, and logistic regressions using SPSS software version 22 (IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY, USA). Statistical significance was set at <0.05.
A total of 83 pharmacy students (fourth year groups=50, fifth year groups=33) participated in the study with response rate of 92%. Majority of the students 70/83 (84.33%) had the overall positive attitude of patient safety. Most of the respondents (80.7%) agree or strongly agree that after an error occurs, an effective strategy is to work hard to be more careful. Most of them (79.6%) believe that pharmacists should routinely spend part of their professional time working to improve patient care. About half (48.2%) of pharmacy students disagree or strongly disagree that pharmacists should discuss and report errors to an affected patient and their family even if the patient is not harmed. No significant association between the attitude of pharmacy students toward patient safety and their age, sex and year of study was found.
Pharmacy students have the overall good attitude to patient safety. However, they claimed the culture and attitude within the pharmacy workplace lacked for patient safety. Moreover, standardized patient safety course should be considered in the curriculum for junior pharmacy students to improve their attitude toward patient safety.
患者安全是医疗保健的一个主要关注点，并且由于其在减少伤害方面发挥着重要作用，正被纳入本科课程。因此，我们旨在评估药学专业学生对患者安全的态度。
在贡德尔大学对四年级和五年级学生进行了一项横断面研究，使用一份包含21个条目的自填式问卷。使用SPSS软件版本22（美国纽约州阿蒙克市IBM公司）进行数据分析，以计算均值、标准差、百分比和逻辑回归。统计学显著性设定为<0.05。
共有83名药学专业学生（四年级组=50人，五年级组=33人）参与了该研究，回复率为92%。大多数学生70/83（84.33%）对患者安全持总体积极态度。大多数受访者（80.7%）同意或强烈同意在错误发生后，一个有效的策略是努力更加小心。他们中的大多数人（79.6%）认为药剂师应该定期花费部分专业时间致力于改善患者护理。约一半（48.2%）的药学专业学生不同意或强烈不同意药剂师即使在患者未受伤害的情况下也应与受影响的患者及其家属讨论并报告错误。未发现药学专业学生对患者安全的态度与其年龄、性别和学习年份之间存在显著关联。
药学专业学生对患者安全总体态度良好。然而，他们声称药房工作场所的文化和态度缺乏对患者安全的重视。此外，应该在本科药学专业学生的课程中考虑开设标准化的患者安全课程，以改善他们对患者安全的态度。
