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Attitudes of undergraduate medical students toward mental illnesses and psychiatry

BACKGROUND: Worldwide, studies show negative attitude among medical students toward psychiatry and mental illness. The knowledge of the attitude and awareness of the undergraduate medical students toward psychiatry, mental health, and psychiatric disorders are most important as they are going to be...

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Autores principales: Desai, Nimisha D., Chavda, Paragkumar D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5903151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29693031
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_87_17
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description BACKGROUND: Worldwide, studies show negative attitude among medical students toward psychiatry and mental illness. The knowledge of the attitude and awareness of the undergraduate medical students toward psychiatry, mental health, and psychiatric disorders are most important as they are going to be involved in the care of these patients either directly or indirectly during the later years of their careers. AIM: This study aims to assess attitude toward psychiatry and mental illness among undergraduate medical students. METHODOLOGY: The responses of 67 medical students from the 6(th) semester (third professional year) batch who completed their 2-week clinical posting of psychiatry in 4(th) semester (i.e., second professional year) were collected using validated questionnaires, attitude towards mental illness (AMI), and attitude towards psychiatry (ATP) that assessed their attitudes to psychiatry and mental illness. Double data entry and validation were done using EpiData and analysis using Epi Info software. RESULTS: Median AMI score was 54 (out of maximum 100) showing a neutral AMI. Median ATP score was 82 (out of maximum 150) also showing a neutral ATP. The theme-wise analysis showed that the attitude of students toward psychiatrist and psychiatry branch was relatively better compared to their AMI. CONCLUSION: Undergraduate students have a neutral attitude to psychiatry and mental illness. More efforts are needed to change the attitude to favorable side.
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spelling pubmed-59031512018-04-24 Attitudes of undergraduate medical students toward mental illnesses and psychiatry Desai, Nimisha D. Chavda, Paragkumar D. J Educ Health Promot Original Article BACKGROUND: Worldwide, studies show negative attitude among medical students toward psychiatry and mental illness. The knowledge of the attitude and awareness of the undergraduate medical students toward psychiatry, mental health, and psychiatric disorders are most important as they are going to be involved in the care of these patients either directly or indirectly during the later years of their careers. AIM: This study aims to assess attitude toward psychiatry and mental illness among undergraduate medical students. METHODOLOGY: The responses of 67 medical students from the 6(th) semester (third professional year) batch who completed their 2-week clinical posting of psychiatry in 4(th) semester (i.e., second professional year) were collected using validated questionnaires, attitude towards mental illness (AMI), and attitude towards psychiatry (ATP) that assessed their attitudes to psychiatry and mental illness. Double data entry and validation were done using EpiData and analysis using Epi Info software. RESULTS: Median AMI score was 54 (out of maximum 100) showing a neutral AMI. Median ATP score was 82 (out of maximum 150) also showing a neutral ATP. The theme-wise analysis showed that the attitude of students toward psychiatrist and psychiatry branch was relatively better compared to their AMI. CONCLUSION: Undergraduate students have a neutral attitude to psychiatry and mental illness. More efforts are needed to change the attitude to favorable side. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5903151/ /pubmed/29693031 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_87_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Education and Health Promotion http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5903151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29693031
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_87_17
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