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Pharmacy Students' Attitudes Toward Debt
Taehwan Park1, Akeem A Yusuf2, Ronald S Hadsall3
1St. Louis College of Pharmacy, St. Louis, Missouri.
Objective:
To examine pharmacy students' attitudes toward debt.
Methods:
Two hundred thirteen pharmacy students at the University of Minnesota were surveyed using items designed to assess attitudes toward debt. Factor analysis was performed to identify common themes. Subgroup analysis was performed to examine whether students' debt-tolerant attitudes varied according to their demographic characteristics, past loan experience, monthly income, and workload.
Results:
Principal component extraction with varimax rotation identified 3 factor themes accounting for 49.0% of the total variance: tolerant attitudes toward debt (23.5%); contemplation and knowledge about loans (14.3%); and fear of debt (11.2%). Tolerant attitudes toward debt were higher if students were white or if they had had past loan experience.
Conclusion:
These 3 themes in students' attitudes toward debt were consistent with those identified in previous research. Pharmacy schools should consider providing a structured financial education to improve student management of debt.
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