Education Intervention For College Students On Essential Medicines

ObjectiveThis study to explore the law of education intervention for consumer on essential medicines, provide the basic theory of carrying out education intervention for consumer on essential medicines and the foundation for management and decision of national essential medicines system.Subjects and MethodsDesignAn educational intervention at Hubei University of economics contrasted by 4 groups including baseline group, control group, blank control group, experimental group.InterventionIn this study, Non-medical professional students were objects of intervention. The researchers entered all classes of the experimental group, to lecture on essential medicines for the students, and each sent a handbook of essential medicines. The main missions include:the scientific knowledge on the essential medicines; the country's national essential medicines are the main contents and implementation of significance; identify the basic skills essential medicines.Data collection and analysisThe questionnaire survey was adopted to evaluate the intervention effects. Subjects were chosen by cluster random sampling. There were 291 classes including 06 year,07 year and 08-year for the sampling frame, sample box in a simple way to collect random samples of 22 classes,8 classes as the experimental group (297 people),7 classes As a control group (245),7 classes as a blank control group (256 people) in Hubei University of Economics. Questionnaire consists of five parts, namely, basic information, knowledge, attitudes, behavioral skills and practice. Data were collected and analyzed as the following:The differences of each knowledge items, behavior skills and practice were tested byχ2 test; The differences of the overall knowledge, attitude and attitude items were tested by Mann-Whitney U test. The relationships of variables were analyzed by Spearman rank order correlation.Results1.This study hope to build the Knowledge-Attitude-Behavioral skills-Practice model. The improving of knowledge and attitude contributed to mastering the behavior skills which lead to changing the practice.2.The total average score of knowledge was 3.34 at baseline,3.54 at blank control group,4.07 at control group and 6.93 at experimental group; the score at experimental group was increased remarkably than the others(P=0.000; P=0.000; P=0.000). The difference of the score between the control group and blank control group was significant (P=0.007); which by the influence of the examining effects.3.The total average score of attitude was 17.976 at baseline,18.801 at blank control group,18.853 at control group and 21.380 at experimental group; the score at experimental group was increased remarkably than the others(P=0.000; P=0.000; P =0.000). The difference of the score between the baseline group and blank control group was significant (P= 0.015); which by the influence of the public opinion environment.4.The proportion of identifying essential medicines was 32.2% at baseline,31.1% at blank control group,37.5% at control group and 47.2%at experimental group; the proportion at experimental group was increased remarkably than the others(P=0.000; P=0.000; P=0.025).5.The proportion of always or often require to use medicines was 6.7% at baseline, 5.5% at blank control group,5.3% at control group and 17.2%at experimental group; the proportion at experimental group was increased remarkably than the others(P =0.000; P=0.000; P=0.025) in hospital. The proportion of always or often require to use medicines was 14.6% at baseline,10.6% at blank control group,15.5% at control group and 33.7% at experimental group; the proportion at experimental group was increased remarkably than the others(P=0.000; P=0.000; P=0.025) in drug store.6.The knowledge had a positive correlation with the attitude (r=0.0.259, P=0.000), and a positive correlation with the behavior skills (r=0.268, P=0.000) and a positive correlation with the practice(r=0.134, P=0.000 in hospital; r=0.134, P=0.000 in drug store). The behavior skills had a positive correlation with the practice(r=0.406, P=0.000 in hospital; r=0.368, P=0.000 in drug store).7.The relationships of knowledge-attitude, knowledge-behavior skills, knowledge-practice and behavior skills-practice were proved by empirical research. The knowledge and attitude is the foundation, the behavior skills is the key of promoting practice.ConclusionThe behavior skills of identifying essential medicines for students was the most important to use essential medicines. The education intervention was efficient to improve the knowledge, attitude, behavior skill and practice levels of essential medicines. The public opinion environment was efficient to improve the attitude levels of essential medicine. The examining effects were efficient to influence the knowledge level of essential medicine.InnovationThe study proposed the KABP model hypothesis and verified the relationships between variables through empirical research. The experiment was designed to contrast by 4 groups including baseline group, control group, blank control group, experimental group. The objects of intervention were non-medical professional students and the subject of intervention was essential medicines.