Egieyeh Elizabeth Oyebola, Bheekie Angeni, van Huyssteen Mea, Coetzee Renier
School of Pharmacy, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville, Cape Town 7535, South Africa.
Pharmacy (Basel). 2021 Oct 8;9(4):163. doi: 10.3390/pharmacy9040163.
The South African Pharmacy Council (SAPC) regulates undergraduate pharmacy education and pharmacy practice. The SAPC Good Pharmacy Practice manual describes the role of pharmacists in maternal and child health (MCH) in line with the recommendation of international health regulatory bodies. However, baseline study findings in 2017 supported literature from around the world that indicated a need for curriculum review and integration to address the knowledge and skills gap in pharmacists' MCH training. This paper describes the development and implementation of an integrated framework for MCH training across the four years of a Bachelor of Pharmacy program. The intervention included didactic lectures, skills practical on infant growth assessment, and an experiential learning component at primary health care clinics and pharmacies. Knowledge and skills assessment on contraception, maternal and antenatal care, and neonatal and child care were carried out pre, eight weeks post, and two years post intervention using the same questionnaire. ANOVA and post hoc analyses showed that participants' knowledge and skills increased post intervention but decreased significantly two years later except in contraception where students experienced longitudinal integration of the MCH component. Generally, participants performed above the university average except in maternal and antenatal care.
南非药学委员会（SAPC）负责监管本科药学教育和药学实践。SAPC的《良好药学实践手册》根据国际卫生监管机构的建议，描述了药剂师在母婴健康（MCH）方面的作用。然而，2017年的基线研究结果支持了来自世界各地的文献，这些文献表明需要对课程进行审查和整合，以解决药剂师在母婴健康培训方面的知识和技能差距。本文描述了在药学学士课程的四年中，母婴健康培训综合框架的开发和实施情况。干预措施包括理论讲座、婴儿生长评估技能实践，以及在初级卫生保健诊所和药房的体验式学习部分。在干预前、干预后八周和干预后两年，使用相同的问卷对避孕、孕产妇和产前护理以及新生儿和儿童护理方面的知识和技能进行了评估。方差分析和事后分析表明，参与者的知识和技能在干预后有所提高，但两年后显著下降，除了在避孕方面，学生们在母婴健康部分经历了纵向整合。总体而言，除了孕产妇和产前护理外，参与者的表现高于大学平均水平。
