Evaluation of grit and its associated factors among undergraduate pharmacy students from 14 Asian and Middle Eastern countries amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Grit and its associated factors among final year pharmacy students in public universities in Nigeria: A cross-sectional study

“…Some factors such as place of residence, engagement in routine physical activities, intrigue with studying pharmacy, etc. have been shown to be significantly associated with higher levels of grit among undergraduate pharmacy students (Elnaem et al, 2023) Healthcare educators have been placing more emphasis on the idea of grit and its role in improving student performance. According to Kalsbeek et al (2013), grit also consists of the non-cognitive abilities of persistence in effort and constancy in interest.…”

“…After an extensive search of the literature, a nine-item short grit questionnaire was employed for this study. Eight items were obtained from the study conducted by Elnaem and colleagues which measured grit levels among pharmacy students (Elnaem et al, 2023) and one item from the Duckworth Grit Scale (Duckworth et al, 2007). The validity and reliability of these items for measuring grit were determined in a small sample of the study population.…”

“…Although the concept of grit and the need to explore it among pharmacy students have been topics of discussion for a long time, there is scarcely any study that has been conducted in Africa about it, despite the abundance of studies from other regions like America, Malaysia, and, recently, in fourteen Asian and Middle Eastern countries (Hammond, 2017;Pate et al, 2017;Abubakar et al, 2021;Elnaem et al, 2023). It was, therefore, important to conduct a study of the concept in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with the largest number of accredited pharmacy schools (International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), 2020).…”

“…Furthermore, students of ABU still turned out to be one of the respondent categories with the least grit. It has been proven that a high grit score improves academic performance and vice versa (Pate et al, 2017;Elnaem et al, 2023). Hence, the poor academic performance of ABU Zaria could be a result of their low grit, even when they had the longest mean study hours.…”

Burnout, grit and resilience among Jordanian orthopedic surgeons: a cross-sectional study

“…Additionally, Al-Qahtani et al, found that among Saudi university students, grit is inversely related to neurological fatigue, cognitive failure and apathy but positively correlated with anxiety and depression [ 20 ]. Finally, a collaborative study involving pharmacy students within 14 Asian and Middle Eastern countries had revealed that higher grit is associated with exercise, academic performance, and type of university among others [ 21 ]. However, the study did not investigate the dynamics between grit and resilience or burnout, which is similar to other Middle Eastern reports concerning with grit and academic performance [ 22 , 23 ].…”