North Dakota State University, College of Health Professions, Fargo, North Dakota.
Gateway Pharmacy, Bismarck, North Dakota.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2019 Jun;83(5):6754. doi: 10.5688/ajpe6754.
To determine whether pharmacy students' prior beliefs and attitudes about drug products and dietary supplements affected their ability to analyze the quality of research study abstracts and use them in making drug recommendations to patients. Fifty-nine Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) students in a drug literature course were randomly assigned to receive one of two forms to evaluate four drug literature abstracts of varying quality and study design. On each form, there were two abstracts that had been taken directly from published research studies and two abstracts in which a different product had been substituted for the actual product studied. Pharmacy students completed a questionnaire about the studies to determine whether their evaluation of quality was affected by their prior opinions about the products. Students correctly recognized the relative quality of the studies. However, after reading abstracts of research articles that were identical except for the product named, students were still more likely to recommend drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration than dietary supplements. Pharmacy students' evaluation of clinical research studies was mildly influenced by confirmation bias but more so by the quality of the research.
为了确定药学专业学生对药品和膳食补充剂的先前观念和态度是否影响他们分析研究摘要质量的能力并据此向患者推荐药物。在一门药物文献课程中，将 59 名药学博士（PharmD）学生随机分配，以评估两种形式的四个不同质量和研究设计的药物文献摘要。在每种形式下，有两个直接取自已发表的研究的摘要和两个将实际研究的产品替换为不同产品的摘要。药学学生完成了一份关于这些研究的问卷，以确定他们对质量的评估是否受到他们对产品的先前意见的影响。学生正确地识别了研究的相对质量。然而，在阅读除了所命名产品之外内容完全相同的研究文章摘要后，学生仍更有可能推荐食品和药物管理局批准的药物而不是膳食补充剂。药学学生对临床研究的评估受到确认偏误的轻微影响，但更多地受到研究质量的影响。
