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Attitude of Medical Students towards Psychiatry: The case of Jimma University, Southwest Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: The inability to attract medical graduates to specialize in psychiatry has always been a serious challenge to psychiatry training programs. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the attitude of medical students towards psychiatry. METHODS: A comparative cross-sectional survey wa...

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Autores principales: Hailesilassie, Hailemariam, Kerebih, Habtamu, Negash, Alemayehu, Girma, Eshetu, Siebeck, Mathias, Tesfaye, Markos
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Publicado: Research and Publications Office of Jimma University 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5614991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29217919
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author Hailesilassie, Hailemariam
Kerebih, Habtamu
Negash, Alemayehu
Girma, Eshetu
Siebeck, Mathias
Tesfaye, Markos
author_facet Hailesilassie, Hailemariam
Kerebih, Habtamu
Negash, Alemayehu
Girma, Eshetu
Siebeck, Mathias
Tesfaye, Markos
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description BACKGROUND: The inability to attract medical graduates to specialize in psychiatry has always been a serious challenge to psychiatry training programs. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the attitude of medical students towards psychiatry. METHODS: A comparative cross-sectional survey was conducted among 122 fourth year medical students of Jimma University. The attitude of medical students towards psychiatry was measured by Attitude toward Psychiatry - 30 (ATP-30). The collected Data were analyzed by SPSS version-20 using independent samples t-test plus bivariate and multivariate logistic regression. The level of significance was determined at 95% confidence interval. RESULTS: Medical students who did not take psychiatry clinical rotation had a higher ATP-30 mean score 55.52(±15.2) indicating positive attitude towards psychiatry than those who completed psychiatry clinical rotation (mean= 49.75 ±10.67). Female medical students had significantly more positive attitude towards psychiatry than males (OR=9.23, 95% CI: 2.32; 36.76). Medical students who did not take psychiatry clinical rotation had more positive attitude towards psychiatry than students who completed the psychiatry clinical rotation (OR=7.58, 95% CI: 2.02; 28.37). Subjective experience of mental illness and reported family history of mental illness significantly predicted positive attitude toward psychiatry. CONCLUSION: The findings suggest that doing psychiatry rotation might have affected the attitude of medical students towards psychiatry. Future research should assess the experiential factors during psychiatry training of medical students that affect their attitudes. Also, future research needs to evaluate the attitudes of fourth year medical students before and after their psychiatry clinical rotation.
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spelling pubmed-56149912017-12-07 Attitude of Medical Students towards Psychiatry: The case of Jimma University, Southwest Ethiopia Hailesilassie, Hailemariam Kerebih, Habtamu Negash, Alemayehu Girma, Eshetu Siebeck, Mathias Tesfaye, Markos Ethiop J Health Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: The inability to attract medical graduates to specialize in psychiatry has always been a serious challenge to psychiatry training programs. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the attitude of medical students towards psychiatry. METHODS: A comparative cross-sectional survey was conducted among 122 fourth year medical students of Jimma University. The attitude of medical students towards psychiatry was measured by Attitude toward Psychiatry - 30 (ATP-30). The collected Data were analyzed by SPSS version-20 using independent samples t-test plus bivariate and multivariate logistic regression. The level of significance was determined at 95% confidence interval. RESULTS: Medical students who did not take psychiatry clinical rotation had a higher ATP-30 mean score 55.52(±15.2) indicating positive attitude towards psychiatry than those who completed psychiatry clinical rotation (mean= 49.75 ±10.67). Female medical students had significantly more positive attitude towards psychiatry than males (OR=9.23, 95% CI: 2.32; 36.76). Medical students who did not take psychiatry clinical rotation had more positive attitude towards psychiatry than students who completed the psychiatry clinical rotation (OR=7.58, 95% CI: 2.02; 28.37). Subjective experience of mental illness and reported family history of mental illness significantly predicted positive attitude toward psychiatry. CONCLUSION: The findings suggest that doing psychiatry rotation might have affected the attitude of medical students towards psychiatry. Future research should assess the experiential factors during psychiatry training of medical students that affect their attitudes. Also, future research needs to evaluate the attitudes of fourth year medical students before and after their psychiatry clinical rotation. Research and Publications Office of Jimma University 2017-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5614991/ /pubmed/29217919 Text en 2017 Hailemariam, H., et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Hailesilassie, Hailemariam
Kerebih, Habtamu
Negash, Alemayehu
Girma, Eshetu
Siebeck, Mathias
Tesfaye, Markos
Attitude of Medical Students towards Psychiatry: The case of Jimma University, Southwest Ethiopia
title Attitude of Medical Students towards Psychiatry: The case of Jimma University, Southwest Ethiopia
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title_fullStr Attitude of Medical Students towards Psychiatry: The case of Jimma University, Southwest Ethiopia
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title_short Attitude of Medical Students towards Psychiatry: The case of Jimma University, Southwest Ethiopia
title_sort attitude of medical students towards psychiatry: the case of jimma university, southwest ethiopia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5614991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29217919
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