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Perception of the importance of continuing professional development among pharmacists in a middle east country: A cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: The role of pharmacists has recently expanded, necessitating enhanced competencies. This requires pharmacists’ participation in continuing education initiatives. This study aims to explore attitudes, motivations, opportunities, and challenges of pharmacists in a country in the middle eas...

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Autores principales: Darwish, Rula M., Ammar, Khawla, Rumman, Asma, Jaddoua, Saad M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10104320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37058486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283984
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author Darwish, Rula M.
Ammar, Khawla
Rumman, Asma
Jaddoua, Saad M.
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description BACKGROUND: The role of pharmacists has recently expanded, necessitating enhanced competencies. This requires pharmacists’ participation in continuing education initiatives. This study aims to explore attitudes, motivations, opportunities, and challenges of pharmacists in a country in the middle east, towards continuous professional development. METHODS: A cross-sectional observational close-ended questions study was conducted in Jordan between September and October 2021, and enrolled 309 pharmacists, the tool was developed by the research team and experts in the field to evaluate the continuous professional development perception among pharmacists. The research was approved by the Ethics and Research Committee in an area hospital and a University. RESULTS: The majority of participants had confidence that continuous professional development prepares pharmacists for practical development, believed that it enhances the status of the profession with other health care professionals as well as with the public, and felt confident that it meets their needs (> 98%). Most of the participants agreed that job restrictions (91%) and lack of time (83%) were the major barriers to participation in continuous professional development. The motivation was positively correlated with attitudes (R = 0.551, P < .001). However, barriers were not significantly correlated with either attitudes or motivations. CONCLUSION: Our findings emphasize the positive attitude of pharmacists towards continuous professional development. Identified barriers to continuous professional development participation included job constraints and lack of time. The study highlights the need for policies and procedures that address these issues before the implementation of mandatory continuous professional development programs for pharmacists.
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spelling pubmed-101043202023-04-15 Perception of the importance of continuing professional development among pharmacists in a middle east country: A cross-sectional study Darwish, Rula M. Ammar, Khawla Rumman, Asma Jaddoua, Saad M. PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: The role of pharmacists has recently expanded, necessitating enhanced competencies. This requires pharmacists’ participation in continuing education initiatives. This study aims to explore attitudes, motivations, opportunities, and challenges of pharmacists in a country in the middle east, towards continuous professional development. METHODS: A cross-sectional observational close-ended questions study was conducted in Jordan between September and October 2021, and enrolled 309 pharmacists, the tool was developed by the research team and experts in the field to evaluate the continuous professional development perception among pharmacists. The research was approved by the Ethics and Research Committee in an area hospital and a University. RESULTS: The majority of participants had confidence that continuous professional development prepares pharmacists for practical development, believed that it enhances the status of the profession with other health care professionals as well as with the public, and felt confident that it meets their needs (> 98%). Most of the participants agreed that job restrictions (91%) and lack of time (83%) were the major barriers to participation in continuous professional development. The motivation was positively correlated with attitudes (R = 0.551, P < .001). However, barriers were not significantly correlated with either attitudes or motivations. CONCLUSION: Our findings emphasize the positive attitude of pharmacists towards continuous professional development. Identified barriers to continuous professional development participation included job constraints and lack of time. The study highlights the need for policies and procedures that address these issues before the implementation of mandatory continuous professional development programs for pharmacists. Public Library of Science 2023-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10104320/ /pubmed/37058486 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283984 Text en © 2023 Darwish et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Perception of the importance of continuing professional development among pharmacists in a middle east country: A cross-sectional study
title_sort perception of the importance of continuing professional development among pharmacists in a middle east country: a cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10104320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37058486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283984
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