Korean J Clin Pharm.  2015 Dec;25(4):238-245. 10.0000/kjcp.2015.25.4.238.

The Factors Related to the Intention of Hospital Pharmacists for taking the Role of a Preceptor

Affiliations
  • 1Graduate School of Clinical pharmacy, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul 04310, South Korea.
  • 2Gang Nam Severance Hospital, Seoul 06273, South Korea.
  • 3College of Pharmacy, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul 04310, South Korea. eun-cho@sookmyung.ac.kr

Abstract

BACKGROUND
Pharmacy schools newly adopted a 6-year program strengthening clinical knowledge since 2011 in Korea. The clinical training under the guidance of preceptors at hospital sites is a requisite for pharmacy students during the last year of undergraduate course. It has been rarely studied on the hospital pharmacists' perspective regarding being a preceptor or teaching pharmacy students.
OBJECTIVES
This study aimed to examine the hospital pharmacists' intention toward student training and to identify the relevant factors among the individual pharmacists' characteristics and working environment within the theoretical frame of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). METHOD: A mail-survey was conducted for pharmacists working in tertiary hospitals in Seoul and Incheon. The survey questionnaire consisting of 131 questions with a 5-likert scale was developed for investigating pharmacists' attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control and the intention to teach pharmacy students as well as other demographic variables. To estimate the construct validity of components, factor analysis was conducted and Cronbach's alpha was calculated to estimate the reliability of the observed variables. Statistical analyses of one-way variance analysis and multiple regression analysis were performed using SPSS 18.0.
RESULTS
The survey response rate was 53% (116/210) and the three constructs of attitude (r = .519), subjective norm (r = .233) and perceived control (r = .392) have appropriate correlations with the intention, proving the appropriateness of using the TPB model. Pharmacists working in inpatient (mean = 3.45) and outpatient clinics (mean = 3.34) generally showed positive intention for teaching. The attitude (beta = .432, p < 0.01) and perceived control (beta = .270, p < .01) constructs were significant predictors of the intention. Both age (r = 0.246, p = 0.017) and length of career (r = 0.310, p = 0.002) were positively related with the perceived control.
CONCLUSION
Hospital pharmacists showed generally positive intention to provide student training in spite of the concern on their limited perceived behavioral control. Future research to find the actual barriers pharmacists faced in educating students need to be conducted.

Keyword

pharmacy education; hospital pharmacist; clinical training; preceptor; precepting; theory of planned behavior

MeSH Terms

Ambulatory Care Facilities
Education, Pharmacy
Humans
Incheon
Inpatients
Intention*
Korea
Pharmacists*
Schools, Pharmacy
Seoul
Students, Pharmacy
Tertiary Care Centers
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