Volume 24, Issue 106, November - December, 2020

Attitude of future healthcare professionals towards Ebola virus disease

Ahmed A Albassam¹, Muhammad Zahid Iqbal², Fahad I Al-Saikhan¹, Salah-Ud-Din Khan³, Muhammad Shahid Iqbal^1♦

¹Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-kharj, 11942, Saudi Arabia
²Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, AIMST University, 08100, Bedong, Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia
³Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-kharj, 11942, Saudi Arabia. Email: m.javed@psau.edu.sa

ABSTRACT

Objective: The objective of the study was to determine the attitude of future healthcare professionals regarding the Ebola virus disease (EVD) in a medical university. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted using a convenience sampling method. A selfdeveloped and pre-validated tool was used to collect data from students studying in three healthcare faculties of a university in Malaysia. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) Version 24.0 was used to analyze the data. Results: More female students 170 (62.3%) participated in the present study than the male students 103 (37.7%), out of a total of 273 studied students. The majority of the students who had a positive attitude towards EVD were from the final years than the pre-final year students. Conclusion: Overall positive attitude observed among the studied future healthcare professionals. The present study concluded that pharmacy students had a more positive attitude than the two other faculties students i.e. dentistry and medicine.

Keywords: Ebola virus disease, EVD, attitude, healthcare students

Medical Science, 2020, 24(106), 3901-3910

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