Awareness and attitude concerning pharmacy profession among students of selected secondary schools in Nyamagana district, Mwanza (Record no. 22185)
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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lucian S Simbila |
| Dates associated with a name | CUHAS/BP/ 3000479/T/17 |
| 9 (RLIN) | 26677 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Awareness and attitude concerning pharmacy profession among students of selected secondary schools in Nyamagana district, Mwanza |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Mwanza, Tanzania: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences [CUHAS - Bugando] : |
| -- | Phone: +255 28 298 3384 : |
| -- | Fax: +255 28 298 3386 : |
| -- | Email: vc@bugando.ac.tz: |
| -- | Website: www.bugando.ac.tz : |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | ©09th September 2021 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xi; 35 Pages |
| Extent | Includes Refferences and Appendices |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Abstract:<br/><br/>Background: Pharmacy profession is the backbone in health profession as it ensures the safety, effective and rational use of medicines. According to WHO, there is variation of number of pharmacists which serve a certain population and African continent has a most intense pharmacy crisis. A good awareness and positive attitude towards pharmacy profession among secondary school students could help to increase number of pharmacy personnel.<br/><br/>Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted in selected secondary school at Nyamagana district from 1 May to 30 June, 2021. A total of 399 participants were included by convenient sampling method. Data were collected using structured questionnaires, cleaned and analysed by using IBM SPSS version 20 software.<br/><br/>Results and discussion: In all participants, male was 145(36.3%) and female were 254(63.7%). It seems that majority of participants prefer to study medical doctor 176(44.1%), followed by engineering 85(21.3%) and pharmacy profession tend to take a third place which were only 68(22.1) had a moderate awareness and 52(13.0%) had poor awareness. Regarding attitude, majority of participants 204(51.1%) shown to have a negative attitude, followed by 128(32.1%) who had a neutral attitude and 67(16.8%) had a positive attitude.<br/><br/>Conclusion: This study has demonstrated a need of positive attitude towards pharmacy profession among secondary school students, also good awareness itself is not enough to make to pursuit a certain profession. <br/> |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| General subdivision | Pharmacy |
| 9 (RLIN) | 26693 |
| General subdivision | Community Medicine |
| 9 (RLIN) | 30336 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 23134 |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| MWALIMU NYERERE LEARNING RESOURCES CENTRE-CUHAS BUGANDO | MWALIMU NYERERE LEARNING RESOURCES CENTRE-CUHAS BUGANDO | 12/10/2021 | UD2433 | 12/10/2021 | 12/10/2021 | UNDERGRADUATE DISSERTATIONS |