Open AccessAttitude of Healthcare Students towards Japanese Encephalitis
Author(s) -
Muhammad Shahid Iqbal,
Salah-Ud-Din Khan,
Muhammad Zahid Iqbal
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of pharmaceutical research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2456-9119
DOI - 10.9734/jpri/2020/v32i2730859
Subject(s) - positive attitude , pharmacy , health care , medical education , psychology , statistical analysis , family medicine , medicine , social psychology , mathematics , statistics , economics , economic growth
Objective: To assess the attitude of healthcare students regarding Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in a medical university.
Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted using a convenience sampling method. A self-developed and pre-validated tool was used to collect data from students studying in three healthcare faculties of a university in Malaysia. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) Version 24.0 was used to analyze the data. The level of significance was alpha of 5% (0.05).
Results: Of the total of 252 studied student, more female students 177 (70.2%) participated in the present study than the male students 75 (29.8%).. The majority of the final years’ students had a positive attitude than the pre-final year students, with female students of the university had a more positive attitude (77.4%) as compared to the male students (69.3%) when the question was asked about the personal role in the management of JE is essential
Conclusion: Overall positive attitude was observed among the studied healthcare students. The present study concluded that pharmacy students had a more positive attitude than the two other faculties students i.e. dentistry and medicine regarding JE.