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Polish Pharmacy Students’ Readiness, Qualifications, Competences, Relevance, Motivation and Effectiveness to Promote Health in Community Pharmacies

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  • Dorota Raczkiewicz

    (Department of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Kleczewska str 61/63, 01-826 Warsaw, Poland)

  • Bartosz Kobuszewski

    (Department of Medical Law and Decisions, School of Public Health, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Kleczewska str 61/63, 01-826 Warsaw, Poland)

  • Beata Sarecka-Hujar

    (Department of Basic Biomedical Science, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Sosnowiec, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Kasztanowa str 3, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland)

  • Adrianna Pawełczak-Barszczowska

    (Zentiva, Bonifraterska str 17, 00-203 Warsaw, Poland)

  • Iwona Bojar

    (Department of Women’s Health, Institute of Rural Health, Jaczewskiego str 2, 20-090 Lublin, Poland)

Abstract

Background: One of the parts of the broadly understood pharmaceutical care is health promotion. Therefore, the study aimed to find out how pharmacy students in Poland assess their own readiness to promote health in pharmacies and their own qualifications, competences, relevance, motivation and effectiveness of health promotion in pharmacies. Methods: The study conducted in 2019 comprised 206 pharmacy students from Poland. The authors’ survey questionnaire had two parts: Readiness to promote health in pharmacies; and Qualifications, competences, relevance, motivation and effectiveness of health promotion in pharmacies. Results: The students assessed the system solutions regarding health promotion as insufficient. The highest assessment was given to their own readiness to promote health. In between those was assessment of readiness to promote health by pharmacists as an occupational group. Readiness to promote health at a workplace in a pharmacy was assessed higher than in a local community. The students gave the highest assessments to the relevance and motivation to promote health, and the lowest to their own competences to promote health. In between those, their qualifications and effectiveness to health promotion in pharmacies. were assessed. Conclusions: Pharmacy students consider themselves ready and motivated to promote health, that is of a great importance in their opinion, and they could potentially play an important role in improving the health care of patients.

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  • Dorota Raczkiewicz & Bartosz Kobuszewski & Beata Sarecka-Hujar & Adrianna Pawełczak-Barszczowska & Iwona Bojar, 2021. "Polish Pharmacy Students’ Readiness, Qualifications, Competences, Relevance, Motivation and Effectiveness to Promote Health in Community Pharmacies," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(24), pages 1-13, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:24:p:13227-:d:703172
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    1. Beata Plewka & Magdalena Waszyk-Nowaczyk & Magdalena Cerbin-Koczorowska & Michał Michalak & Aleksandra Sajko & Monika Bańdurska & Tomasz Osmałek, 2022. "Polish Pharmacy Students’ Attitudes toward Undergraduate Teaching and Practical Implementation of Pharmaceutical Care—A Cross Sectional Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(12), pages 1-12, June.

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