Maharajan, Mari Kannan, Rajiah, Kingston, Tam, Ai May, Chaw, Siew Ling, Ang, May Jing, and Yong, Mei Wan (2017) Pharmacy students' anxiety towards research during their undergraduate degree; How to reduce it? PLoS ONE, 12. e0176095.

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Abstract

Objective: To measure pharmacy students' anxiety towards research and how academic support, academic effort, attitude and self-efficacy influence their research anxiety.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with undergraduate final year students of pharmacy using a convenient sampling method. A validated self-administered questionnaire was used.

Results: Response rate for this study was 85.9% (128 students from a population of 149). The participants agreed that they read literature to understand research, but did not attend research-related coursework. Most participants (91.4%) felt that they were under stress while doing research. Almost all participants (97.6%) felt that they were doing very badly during their data analysis or they may fail their research projects. The majority of participants agreed that help from the lecturers' and friends in research give emotional support for their research activities.

Conclusion: Academic support for pharmacy students, along with their additional academic effort will improve the students' self-efficacy and reduce research anxiety.

Item ID:	90392
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1932-6203
Copyright Information:	© 2017 Maharajan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Date Deposited:	06 Aug 2026 02:16
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