The COVID-19 pandemic has caused numerous changes in all aspects of human life and behavior, especially in the education system. Because of these reasons, our study aimed to evaluate the approaches and attitudes of pharmacy faculty students to the COVID-19 pandemic as a survey study. This study is an analytical cross-sectional study. It was conducted with the online questionnaire technique. The questionnaire form consists of 5 different sections, and the participants were asked questions aiming to determine the level of knowledge, behavioral patterns, and approaches to online education of pharmacy faculty students against the COVID-19 pandemic, along with socio-demographic questions. 151 pharmacy students, 99 (65.6%) female and 52 (34.4%) male, participated in our study. When the participants with COVID-19 infection were asked about their post-infection approach, 31 (50%) of the participants stated that "no change in the ways of protection", 20 (32.3%) felt the need for more protection, and 11 (17.7%) also announced that he had loosened the protection measures. It has been shown that there is an increase in students’ anxiety during the pandemic. In addition, it was determined that a high rate of vaccination and vaccines were relied upon. Our data show that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about some changes in the attitudes and behaviors of pharmacy students. Time will tell the long-term results of this study, in which we showed how these changes caused by the pandemic affect pharmacy students in the short term.
This study was approved by the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 Scientific Research Evaluation Commission on 25/12/2021. Ethics committee approval of the study was obtained with the decision dated 02.03.2022 and numbered 53294 by T.C. Bezmialem Vakıf University (BVU), Non-Interventional Research Ethics Committee.
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Genetics (Other) |
Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Publication Date | April 30, 2024 |
Submission Date | October 19, 2023 |
Acceptance Date | March 19, 2024 |
Published in Issue | Year 2024 Volume: 5 Issue: 1 |
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