Perception of Jordanian Pharmacy Students towards Community Pharmacy-Virtual Training Experience during COVID-19 Outbreak
Abstract Background: Nowadays, it is clear for the whole world that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic had substantial consequences on various sectors including social, economic and education. Pharmacy education includes community pharmacy practice training, and in many schools, it has been shifted to virtual modality utilizing distance learning. This study aims to assess the perception of pharmacy students towards community pharmacy practice virtual training during the COVID-19 period. Methods: Senior pharmacy students were included in this study. Accredited and certified community pharmacy preceptors were asked to simulate the community pharmacy training and record that as videos, which were evaluated and assessed by expert academics before being delivered to students. A validated online questionnaire was then distributed for the students for self-administration through Microsoft teams to evaluate their perception. Results: A convenience sample (n=109) of senior pharmacy students were recruited. The majority of the participants were females (70.6%) and the median age of students was 22.0 years (IQR= 1). Around half of the participants showed positive perceptions towards the virtual training module and the pharmacy training preceptors. A 46.8% of the students benefited from the virtual training in time management and 43.1% in developing lifelong learning skills. The absence of eye contact during the learning was the most important barrier revealed by the students (52.3%). Half of the students agreed/strongly agreed that combining the virtual and conventional techniques for future training would improve training outcomesConclusion: This is the first study assessing perception towards virtual training in Jordan, which was positive among pharmacy students. Such results could spot the light on the value of hybrid education and training (virtual with actual) in the pharmacy field. However, there is a crucial need for well-designed studied modules to comply with the intended learning outcomes..
| Medienart: |
|
|---|
Preprint| Erscheinungsjahr: |
2021 |
|---|---|
| Erschienen: |
2021 |
| Enthalten in: |
ResearchSquare.com - (2021) vom: 17. März Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2021 |
|---|
| Sprache: |
Englisch |
|---|
| Beteiligte Personen: |
Barakat, Muna [VerfasserIn] |
|---|
| Links: |
Volltext [kostenfrei] |
|---|
| doi: |
10.21203/rs.3.rs-268142/v1 |
|---|
| funding: |
|
|---|---|
| Förderinstitution / Projekttitel: |
|
| PPN (Katalog-ID): |
XRA034170006 |
|---|
| LEADER | 01000caa a22002652 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | XRA034170006 | ||
| 003 | DE-627 | ||
| 005 | 20230429184207.0 | ||
| 007 | cr uuu---uuuuu | ||
| 008 | 220113s2021 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a 10.21203/rs.3.rs-268142/v1 |2 doi | |
| 035 | |a (DE-627)XRA034170006 | ||
| 035 | |a (ResearchSquare)10.21203/rs.3.rs-268142/v1 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-627 |b ger |c DE-627 |e rakwb | ||
| 041 | |a eng | ||
| 082 | 0 | |a 570 |q DE-84 | |
| 100 | 1 | |a Barakat, Muna |e verfasserin |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Perception of Jordanian Pharmacy Students towards Community Pharmacy-Virtual Training Experience during COVID-19 Outbreak |
| 264 | 1 | |c 2021 | |
| 336 | |a Text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a Computermedien |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a Online-Ressource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 520 | |a Abstract Background: Nowadays, it is clear for the whole world that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic had substantial consequences on various sectors including social, economic and education. Pharmacy education includes community pharmacy practice training, and in many schools, it has been shifted to virtual modality utilizing distance learning. This study aims to assess the perception of pharmacy students towards community pharmacy practice virtual training during the COVID-19 period. Methods: Senior pharmacy students were included in this study. Accredited and certified community pharmacy preceptors were asked to simulate the community pharmacy training and record that as videos, which were evaluated and assessed by expert academics before being delivered to students. A validated online questionnaire was then distributed for the students for self-administration through Microsoft teams to evaluate their perception. Results: A convenience sample (n=109) of senior pharmacy students were recruited. The majority of the participants were females (70.6%) and the median age of students was 22.0 years (IQR= 1). Around half of the participants showed positive perceptions towards the virtual training module and the pharmacy training preceptors. A 46.8% of the students benefited from the virtual training in time management and 43.1% in developing lifelong learning skills. The absence of eye contact during the learning was the most important barrier revealed by the students (52.3%). Half of the students agreed/strongly agreed that combining the virtual and conventional techniques for future training would improve training outcomesConclusion: This is the first study assessing perception towards virtual training in Jordan, which was positive among pharmacy students. Such results could spot the light on the value of hybrid education and training (virtual with actual) in the pharmacy field. However, there is a crucial need for well-designed studied modules to comply with the intended learning outcomes. | ||
| 700 | 1 | |a Al-Qudah, Rajaa A. |e verfasserin |4 aut | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Farha, Rana Abu |e verfasserin |4 aut | |
| 700 | 1 | |a ALSalamat, Husam A. |e verfasserin |4 aut | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Akour, Amal |e verfasserin |4 aut | |
| 773 | 0 | 8 | |i Enthalten in |t ResearchSquare.com |g (2021) vom: 17. März |
| 773 | 1 | 8 | |g year:2021 |g day:17 |g month:03 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-268142/v1 |z kostenfrei |3 Volltext |
| 912 | |a GBV_XRA | ||
| 912 | |a SSG-OLC-PHA | ||
| 951 | |a AR | ||
| 952 | |j 2021 |b 17 |c 03 | ||
| 953 | |2 045F |a 570 | ||