Factors Influencing Pharmacy Students' Intention to Sell Syringes to Suspected Injection Drug Users In Community-Based Pharmacies
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description: Providing access to sterile syringes, through pharmacy-based syringe sales, is considered an important part of a comprehensive approach to HIV/AIDS prevention among injection drug users (IDUs). Pharmacists are the gatekeepers for such sales and thus, formal pharmacy education can potentially play a critical role in shaping syringe- selling behavior of pharmacy students. This dissertation presents results from an electronic survey administered to pharmacy students enrolled at the South Carolina College of Pharmacy. The cross- sectional survey assessed pharmacy students‟ knowledge of syringe laws, HIV prevention beliefs, perceived negative consequences of selling, beliefs about addiction, beliefs about educational preparation, normative beliefs, facilitators of selling, community-based pharmacy experience with selling, and intention to sell syringes to IDUs. The survey was completed by a total of 119 second, third, and fourth year doctoral pharmacy students. Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, multiple linear regression, and multiple logistic regression analysis were conducted. The majority (64.9%) of students reported selling syringes and 24.1% reported declining to sell syringes to suspected IDUs during their pharmacy experiences. Intention to sell was positively associated with students and preceptors‟ selling and negatively associated with students‟ declining to sell. Students‟ intention to sell was positively associated with knowledge of syringe laws, HIV prevention beliefs, normative beliefs, and facilitators of selling and negatively associated with perceived negative consequences of selling. Student sold was positively associated with HIV prevention beliefs and normative beliefs and was negatively associated with perceived negative consequences of selling. Students with high intention to sell had significantly higher knowledge of syringe laws, HIV prevention beliefs, normative beliefs, and facilitators of selling and lower perceived negative consequences…
abstract: Providing access to sterile syringes, through pharmacy-based syringe sales, is considered an important part of a comprehensive approach to HIV/AIDS prevention among injection drug users (IDUs). Pharmacists are the gatekeepers for such sales and thus, formal pharmacy education can potentially play a critical role in shaping syringe- selling behavior of pharmacy students. This dissertation presents results from an electronic survey administered to pharmacy students enrolled at the South Carolina College of Pharmacy. The cross- sectional survey assessed pharmacy students‟ knowledge of syringe laws, HIV prevention beliefs, perceived negative consequences of selling, beliefs about addiction, beliefs about educational preparation, normative beliefs, facilitators of selling, community-based pharmacy experience with selling, and intention to sell syringes to IDUs. The survey was completed by a total of 119 second, third, and fourth year doctoral pharmacy students. Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, multiple linear regression, and multiple logistic regression analysis were conducted. The majority (64.9%) of students reported selling syringes and 24.1% reported declining to sell syringes to suspected IDUs during their pharmacy experiences. Intention to sell was positively associated with students and preceptors‟ selling and negatively associated with students‟ declining to sell. Students‟ intention to sell was positively associated with knowledge of syringe laws, HIV prevention beliefs, normative beliefs, and facilitators of selling and negatively associated with perceived negative consequences of selling. Student sold was positively associated with HIV prevention beliefs and normative beliefs and was negatively associated with perceived negative consequences of selling. Students with high intention to sell had significantly higher knowledge of syringe laws, HIV prevention beliefs, normative beliefs, and facilitators of selling and lower perceived negative consequences…
author: Fiegel, Katherine Anne
keywords: Medicine and Health Sciences, Public Health, Public Health Education and Promotion, injection drug users, pharmacy, syringes
date published: 2010-01-01T08:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T04:36:56Z
provider: University of South Carolina
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: University of South Carolina