Abstract
Cardiovascular disease is the highest cause of mortality in Indonesia. One of the factors that causes the disease is low level of health awareness, including healthy lifestyle and health control. Improving public health awareness can be done by providing health education in collaboration with interprofessional health services. A collaboration involving students from various health-related disciplines aims to build good collaboration in the future after the corresponding students become health workers. This study is quasi-experimental. Students from health-related disciplines, especially pharmacy and medical students, were authorized to work directly in health screening and to provide education to the community. Student’s perceptions on the Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) program were explored through Student Perceptions of Physician-Pharmacist Interprofessional Clinical Education (SPICE) questionnaire, which were given before and after the community project. Among 87 SPICE questionnaires, 78 questionnaires filled in completely were collected from pharmacy and medical students. The results of the questionnaire showed good perceptions before and after activities in the community with mean scores of 4.46 (0.35) and 4.5 (0.37) respectively. Wilcoxon test results found no significant difference on the total SPICE scores before and after the activity (P> .05). One item from the SPICE questionnaire, which was the seventh item related to understanding the role of other professionals in the interdisciplinary team, had a significant increase (P <.05).
Highlights
Cardiovascular disease is still the highest threat of mortality in Indonesia
The prevalence of hyperglycemia was 9.9%, dyslipidemia was 17.6%, and overweight and obesity was 56.3%, which indicates low level of health and public awareness about health (Suhadi et al, 2017, 2015). Cardiovascular risk factors such as smoking, lack of physical activity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes induce the development of atherosclerosis
The results imply that the students have already had a high perception on interprofessional collaboration as those students had been exposed to interprofessional education materials from their lecturer while in college
Summary
Cardiovascular disease is still the highest threat of mortality in Indonesia. The dominating cause suffered by Indonesian population is hypertension. The prevalence of hypertension among subjects in Sleman Regency was almost 50% and had a very low adherence to therapy. Adherence to therapy was found in only 13.5% of hypertension subjects (Suhadi et al, 2015). The prevalence of hyperglycemia was 9.9%, dyslipidemia was 17.6%, and overweight and obesity was 56.3%, which indicates low level of health and public awareness about health (Suhadi et al., 2017, 2015). Cardiovascular risk factors such as smoking, lack of physical activity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes induce the development of atherosclerosis. Exposure to these risk factors accelerates atherosclerosis and the process of complex plaque formation, narrowing of blood vessels, and blockage of blood flow in vital organs covering the kidneys, heart and brain (Douglas et al, 2014)
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