Drifa Frostadottir, Raquel Perez, Lars B Dahlin
Socioeconomic factors and outcome after repair and reconstruction of digital and major nerve trunk injuries in the upper limb
Scientific reports
despite recognition educating healthcare students patient safety essential changing already full curricula challenging furthermore institutions may lack capacity capability deliver patient safety education particularly start professional practice studies using senior students peer educators deliver practicebased education potentially overcome contextual barriers training junior students therefore study aimed evaluate effectiveness peerled patient safety education programme junior pharmacy students repeat crosssectional design utilising previously validated patient safety attitudinal survey used evaluate attitudes prior immediately 1 month delivery patient safety education programme latent growth curve lgc modelling used evaluate change attitudes firstyear students using secondyear students comparator group undergraduate university students sydney australia 175 firstyear 140 secondyear students enrolled bachelor pharmacy programme university sydney introductory patient safety programme implemented firstyear bachelor pharmacy curriculum university sydney programme covered introductory patient safety topics including teamwork communication skills systems thinking open disclosure programme consisted 2 lectures delivered senior academic workshop delivered trained finalyear pharmacy students full lgc model constructed including intervention nontimedependent predictor change 2 51164070 root mean square error approximation0084 comparative fit index0913 standardised root mean square0056 firstyear students attitudes significantly improved result intervention particularly relation internalising errors p0010 questioning behaviours p0001 open disclosure p0008 peerled education effective method adopted improve junior pharmacy students attitudes towards patient safety