Healthcare students' perceptions about their role, confidence and competence to deliver brief public health interventions and advice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Public health improvement has long been an important focus for the United Kingdom Department of Health. The Allied Health Professions (AHP) Federation has 84,000 members, such a large number of AHP professionals should play a role in public health initiatives, but it is not clear if they or the AHP students who will be the future healthcare workforce feel themselves equipped to do so. Our aim was to understand the perceptions of AHP students about their role in delivering public health advice.

Methods

AHP students were recruited in one teaching university from different departments. Participants were final year AHP students who had completed all clinical placements related to their course. All students were emailed an invitation to participate, and those intereste

SUBMITTER: McLean S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5968571 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature