Clinical Pharmacy and Health economics, Department of Biopharmaceutics and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan.
Health economics, Department of Biopharmaceutics and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan.
Curr Pharm Teach Learn. 2020 Sep;12(9):1072-1080. doi: 10.1016/j.cptl.2020.04.027. Epub 2020 Apr 30.
Health economics education (HEe) and pharmacoeconomics education (PEe) in the Middle East and North Africa area is growing, particularly in pharmacy education. Little is known about the awareness, knowledge, and attitudes of health professions students toward health economics (HE) and pharmacoeconomics (PE) and the extent of education they receive before joining the workforce.
A self-completed validated questionnaire was distributed to students from medical, dental, pharmacy, and nursing schools in Jordan. The questionnaire assessed awareness, knowledge, and attitudes about HE and PE terminologies, applications, and need for training. Chi-square and Kruskal-Wallis H tests were used to outline the differences between students' responses.
A total of 2648 questionnaires were analysed, representing 586 medical, 414 dental, 1080 pharmacy, and 568 nursing students. Approximately 65% of respondents reported they had heard of HE or PE. Supportive views about the necessity for economic education in healthcare professions curricula were reported. Nursing students most often expressed desire to undertake training before graduation while dental students showed the least interest.
Students across health professions groups acquire various extents of HEe and PEe before graduation. Pharmacy schools demonstrated leading interest and progress in providing PEe in Jordan, and medical schools appeared to follow. Both dental and nursing schools were lagging. Regional support from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Arabic Network, accreditation, and regulatory requirements are leading social and contextual contributors to PEe in Jordan.
在中东和北非地区，健康经济学教育（HEe）和药物经济学教育（PEe）正在不断发展，尤其是在药学教育中。关于卫生专业学生对健康经济学（HE）和药物经济学（PE）的认识、知识和态度，以及他们在就业前接受的教育程度，知之甚少。
向来自约旦医学、牙科、药学和护理学校的学生发放了一份自行设计的经过验证的问卷。该问卷评估了学生对健康经济学和药物经济学术语、应用和培训需求的认识、知识和态度。使用卡方检验和克鲁斯卡尔-沃利斯 H 检验来描述学生回答之间的差异。
共分析了 2648 份问卷，代表了 586 名医学、414 名牙科、1080 名药学和 568 名护理学生。约 65%的受访者表示听说过健康经济学或药物经济学。报告中对在医疗保健专业课程中进行经济教育的必要性持支持态度。护理专业的学生最常表示希望在毕业前接受培训，而牙科学生则表现出最小的兴趣。
不同健康专业群体的学生在毕业前获得了不同程度的健康经济学教育和药物经济学教育。约旦的药学学校在提供药物经济学教育方面表现出领先的兴趣和进展，而医学学校似乎紧随其后。牙科和护理学校则落后了。国际药物经济学和结果研究协会阿拉伯网络、认证和监管要求等区域支持是推动约旦药物经济学教育的主要社会和背景因素。
