Determination of pharmacy students' patient safety approach using the theory of planned behaviour: a mixed-method study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate pharmacy students' attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, intentions and their behaviour towards patient safety using a theory of planned behaviour framework.

Design

Mixed-methods research.

Setting

Private university in Malaysia.

Participants

Pharmacy undergraduate students participated in the study. There were 18 students participated in the qualitative study and 272 students responded to the survey questionnaire.

Methods

A convergent parallel-mixed method design, involving a quantitative survey and qualitative focus group discussions was used among pharmacy students in a private university in Malaysia. Qualitative data of transcribed verbatim texts were then subjected to a thematic content analysis framewo

SUBMITTER: Rajiah K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8640624 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature