Avaliação das atitudes colaborativas entre estudantes de farmácia e medicina no Brasil

Abstract

Interprofessional collaboration is a developing worldwide trend that can improve health care delivery system and patient outcomes, including medication use, avoid failures and decrease health cost. Studies have demonstrated that collaboration between pharmacists and physicians should initiate since graduation. However, there is not any study that propose to measure interprofessional collaboration between Pharmacy and Medical students in Brazil. The aim of this study was to measure undergraduate Pharmacy and Medical students’ collaborative attitudes. A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out from September 2016 to February 2017 in northeast of Brazil. Students were invited to complete the Scale of Attitudes Toward Pharmacist-Physician Collaboration (SATP2C). Survey data were coded and entered into IBM SPSS (22 version) software. Three hundred fifty-nine students completed the SATP2C: 207 Pharmacy (57.7%) and 152 Medical students (42.3%); 202 students were female (56.3%), 96 were male (26.7%) and 61 did not provide gender information (17%); 216 students were at first year (60.2%) and 143 were at last year (39.8%) of graduation. Women showed more positive collaborative attitude than men did (53.47 ± 6.81 vs. 55.25 ± 6.26; p = 0.037). Pharmacy students had a higher score than Medical ones (57.54 ± 4.73, vs. 51.34 ± 6.45; p = 0.001). Among Medical students, first year students showed themselves more available to collaborative attitudes than last year (52.27 ± 6.01 vs. 49.84 ± 6.88; p = 0.033). Thereby, the present study gives a first landscape about Pharmacy and Medical student’s collaborative attitudes in Sergipe, Brazil that could be a reflection of the kind of health education they receive.