Ndetei David M, Khasakhala Lincoln, Ongecha-Owuor Francisca, Kuria Mary, Mutiso Victoria, Syanda Judy, Kokonya Donald
Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Kenya.
Acad Psychiatry. 2008 Mar-Apr;32(2):154-9. doi: 10.1176/appi.ap.32.2.154.
The authors aim to determine the attitudes of University of Nairobi, Kenya, medical students toward psychiatry.
The study design was cross-sectional. Self-administered sociodemographic and the Attitudes Toward Psychiatry-30 items (ATP-30) questionnaires were distributed sequentially to every third medical student in his or her lecture theater before or immediately after the lectures. Analysis was done using SPSS version 11.5 and the results are presented in tables.
Nearly 75% of the students had overall favorable attitudes toward psychiatry but only 14.3% considered psychiatry as a potential career choice. Sixty-six percent reported that they would not choose psychiatry as a career while the remaining 19.7% were not decided.
There is dissonance between positive attitudes toward psychiatry and the choice of psychiatry as a potential career. Therefore, there is a need to bridge the gap by addressing the various factors that potentially account for this dissonance.
作者旨在确定肯尼亚内罗毕大学医学生对精神病学的态度。
本研究采用横断面设计。在讲座前或讲座刚结束后，将自行填写的社会人口学调查问卷和30项精神病学态度问卷（ATP - 30）依次分发给阶梯教室里每三名医学生中的一名。使用SPSS 11.5版进行分析，结果以表格形式呈现。
近75%的学生对精神病学总体持积极态度，但只有14.3%的学生将精神病学视为潜在的职业选择。66%的学生表示不会选择精神病学作为职业，其余19.7%的学生尚未决定。
对精神病学的积极态度与将其作为潜在职业的选择之间存在不一致。因此，有必要通过解决可能导致这种不一致的各种因素来弥合差距。
