Nagata H, Ohta T, Aoyama H
Faculty of Economics, Okayama University, Japan.
Acta Med Okayama. 1999 Jun;53(3):141-5.
Medical students (fourth-year: n = 67; fifth-year: n = 63) estimated inpatients' feelings of anxiety, self-esteem, purpose-in-life, and multidimensional health locus of control. Their ratings were compared both with the ratings given by the 121 inpatients themselves and with those given by nursing practitioners (nurses and nursing students). Findings showed that the medical students overestimated inpatients' anxiety, while they underestimated the inpatients' purpose-in-life and internal health locus of control. Hence they underestimated, as did the nursing practitioners, the inpatients' positive emotional states and their positive attitude toward their own lives. Fifth-year medical students, with clinical experience, rated the inpatients' score of chance health locus of control higher than did the fourth-year medical students, who had no clinical experience. These findings indicate that medical students, like nursing practitioners, are inclined to pay more attention to inpatients' weaknesses than to their strengths.
医学专业学生（四年级：n = 67；五年级：n = 63）对住院患者的焦虑感、自尊、生活目标以及多维健康控制点进行了评估。他们的评分与121名住院患者自评的评分以及护理从业者（护士和护生）给出的评分进行了比较。研究结果显示，医学专业学生高估了住院患者的焦虑感，同时低估了住院患者的生活目标和内在健康控制点。因此，他们与护理从业者一样，低估了住院患者的积极情绪状态以及他们对自己生活的积极态度。有临床经验的五年级医学专业学生对住院患者的机遇健康控制点得分的评估高于没有临床经验的四年级医学专业学生。这些研究结果表明，医学专业学生与护理从业者一样，倾向于更多地关注住院患者的弱点而非优点。
