Assessment of awareness, attitude and implementation of Community Based Training Programme from the perspective of Jimma University Medical Students, Jimma, South West Ethiopia, 2017

Abstract

This institution based cross sectional study conducted from July to August 2017 at Jimma University, assessed the awareness and attitude towards relevance and implementation of Community Based Training Program (CBTP) from the perspective of medical students in the University. Data was collected from three hundred and nine (309) medical students using pre-tested structured self-administered questionnaire. The data was checked for completeness, edited, coded and entered in to SPSS version 23 for statistical analysis. Descriptive statistics (frequencies, percentages) was computed to show picture of the data. Chi-square test, where necessary, was used to test the association among variables. P-value of < 0.05 was used as a measure of statistical significance. Results showed a significant association between awareness of objectives of CBTP and attitude towards relevance of CBTP in future career (p-value=0.04). It also indicated that the supervision of CBTP activities was inadequate and implementation of action plan and evaluation of intervention was low; suggesting that CBE shall foster CBTP supervision and implementation of action plan drawn at the end of each phase of CBTP.