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100			_a Lucian S Simbila _dCUHAS/BP/ 3000479/T/17 _926677
245			_aAwareness and attitude concerning pharmacy profession among students of selected secondary schools in Nyamagana district, Mwanza
260			_aMwanza, Tanzania: _bCatholic University of Health and Allied Sciences [CUHAS - Bugando] : _bPhone: +255 28 298 3384 : _b Fax: +255 28 298 3386 : _b Email: vc@bugando.ac.tz: _b Website: www.bugando.ac.tz : _c ©09th September 2021
300			_axi; 35 Pages
300			_aIncludes Refferences and Appendices
520			_aAbstract: 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. 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. 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. 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.
600			_xPharmacy _926693
600			_xCommunity Medicine _930336
700			_aPendo Ndaki _923134
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