Service learning based environmental health promotion activities for pharmacy students: educating young on the safe disposal of medicines and used sharps

Srinivas, Sunitha C; Paphitis, Sharli; Ncomanzi, A.S; Tandlich, Roman; Bradshaw, Karen L

Title: Service learning based environmental health promotion activities for pharmacy students: educating young on the safe disposal of medicines and used sharps
Creator: Srinivas, Sunitha C
Creator: Paphitis, Sharli
Creator: Ncomanzi, A.S
Creator: Tandlich, Roman
Creator: Bradshaw, Karen L
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2015
Date: 2015
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/475255
Identifier: vital:77788
Description: The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of a service-learning based environmental health promotion exhibit in raising awareness of safe disposal of medicines and used sharps during the 2014 National Science Festival in South Africa. The study design utilised a computer-based quiz, an information poster, an interactive model and a take-home information leaflet on the safe disposal of medicines and used sharps which were developed by students and staff in the faculty of pharmacy at Rhodes University. Predominantly school students attended the exhibit and took part in a quiz. 413 participants took part in the environmental health promotion activity, with 91% of the participating learners attending schools in the Eastern Cape Province. significant improvement (p is less than 0.001). Moreover, the results show significant gender differences for both the pre- and post-intervention mean scores. The environmental health promotion project was successful in raising awareness of the safe and appropriate disposal of medicines and used sharps by highlighting the dangers associated with their incorrect disposal, both to the environment and eventually to humans. Similar continuous health promotion activities are essential for sustainable effectiveness in the transformation of individual and communal actions in South Africa for the safe disposal of medicines and used sharps.
Format: computer
Format: online resource
Format: application/pdf
Format: 1 online resource (15 pages)
Format: pdf
Publisher: Central University of Technology
Language: English
Relation: Journal for New Generation Sciences
Relation: Srinivas, S.C., Paphitis, S.A., Ncomanzi, A.S., Tandlich, R. and Bradshaw, K., 2015. Service learning based environmental health promotion activities for pharmacy students: educating young on the safe disposal of medicines and used sharps. Journal for New Generation Sciences, 13(3), pp.182-196
Relation: Journal for New Generation Sciences volume 13 number 3 p. 182 2015 1684-4998
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Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Central University of Technology, Free State terms of use ( https://www.cut.ac.za/jngs)
Rights: Open Access

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Paphitis, Sharli Anne (Dr)

Srinivas, Sunitha Chandrasekhar (Assoc Prof)

Tandlich, Roman (Professor)

RU Department of Pharmacy

SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Bradshaw, Karen Lee (Assoc Prof)

RU Department of Computer Science

SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being

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