Understanding how pharmacy, occupational therapy, and nursing students view and utilise lectures as learning opportunities

To investigate factors affecting lecture attendance of Nursing/Midwifery (NU), Occupational Therapy (OT) and Pharmacy (PH) students to inform teaching and learning guidelines to promote student engagement for application to practice. The following two research questions are posed: i) What factors affect NU, OT, and PH student lecture attendance?; ii) Are these factors different across NU, OT and PH beginner (e.g., year 1), intermediate (e.g., years 2-3), and final year student cohorts?