Teaching Pharmacy Undergraduate Students Inhaler Device Technique and Exploring Factors Affecting Maintenance of Technique

Table 1

Proportion of participants with the correct inhaler technique (i.e., achieving a score of 9/9) at baseline, peer training, individualised training, and at follow-up.

	Baseline assessment (T = t1a)	Peer training (T = t1b)	Individualised training (T = t1c)	Follow-up (T = t2)
Proportion of participants with correct technique (%)	11 % (260/236)	61 % (144/236)	100% (236/236)	28% (56/200)	^a
Mean inhaler technique score (+/−SD)	6.6 (+/−1.4)	8.3 (+/−1.1)	9	6.9 (+/−1.9)	^b

^aChi-square test for independence, χ² (1, ) = 8.56, , phi = 0.19; ^bone-way repeated measures ANOVA (Wilk’s lambda = 0.386, F (2, 28) = 174.29, ).