Factors affecting the views and attitudes of Scottish pharmacists to continuing professional development
Power, Ailsa and Grammatiki, Aikaterini and Bates, Ian and Mckellar, Susan and Johnson, Julienne and Diack, H. Lesley and Stewart, Derek and Hudson, Stephen (2011) Factors affecting the views and attitudes of Scottish pharmacists to continuing professional development. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 19 (6). pp. 424-430. ISSN 2042-7174 (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2042-7174.2011.00135.x)
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To explore factors associated with Scottish pharmacists' views and attitudes to continuing professional development (CPD). A retrospective principal component analysis of 552 (22.8%) questionnaires returned from a sample of 2420 Scottish pharmacists randomly selected from the 4300 pharmacists registered with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and with a Scottish address. Principal component analysis of questionnaire items (n = 19) revealed four factors associated with Scottish pharmacists' views and attitudes to CPD: having positive support in the workplace, having access to resources and meeting learning needs, having confidence in the CPD process and motivation to participate in the CPD process. Community pharmacists were identified as the subgroup of pharmacists that needed most support for CPD regarding all four factors, while pharmacists working in primary care felt that they had most support in the workplace in comparison to other sectors (P < 0.05) and better access to resources and meeting learning needs when compared to community (P < 0.001) and hospital (P = 0.008) colleagues. Pharmacists working in primary care also felt more motivated to participate in the CPD process than those in the community (P < 0.001), and hospital pharmacists reported having more confidence in the CPD process compared to community pharmacists (P < 0.05). Using principal component analysis has identified four factors associated with Scottish pharmacists' views and attitudes to CPD. This may provide an approach to facilitate comparison of CPD views and attitudes with intra and inter professional groupings. Further study may allow identification of good practice and solutions to common CPD issues.
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Item type: Article ID code: 33125 Dates: DateEventDecember 2011Published20 June 2011Published OnlineSubjects: Medicine > Therapeutics. Pharmacology Department: Faculty of Science > Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 05 Sep 2011 14:29 Last modified: 11 Nov 2024 09:49 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/33125