SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2012 Jan;54(1):37-40. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.94643.
The present study aims at understanding the attitude of the undergraduate medical students toward psychiatry, mental health and psychiatric disorders and their treatment.
This was a cross-sectional descriptive study. The study involved random distribution of the questionnaire to the participants in an institute's festival. The authors utilized a semi-structured questionnaire to evaluate the perceptions, attitudes and beliefs of the undergraduate students to psychiatry, mental health and psychiatric disorders. The data were analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences version 10.0 software. The analysis involved descriptive analysis of the data.
A total of 210 of people responded to the questionnaire given to them. Of these, 164 were considered for further analysis as the rest had not provided the complete background information or the questionnaire was not completed. The undergraduate medical students had multiple lacunae in their knowledge toward psychiatry, psychiatric disorders, psychiatric patients and psychiatric treatment. A potential contributory fact could be the neglect of psychiatry as a discipline at the undergraduate level. The undergraduate medical students had multiple lacunae in their knowledge toward psychiatry, psychiatric disorders, psychiatric patients and psychiatric treatment.
本研究旨在了解医学生对精神病学、心理健康和精神障碍及其治疗的态度。
这是一项横断面描述性研究。研究将问卷随机分发给研究所节日的参与者。作者采用半结构式问卷评估本科生对精神病学、心理健康和精神障碍的看法、态度和信念。使用社会科学统计软件包 10.0 版对数据进行分析。分析包括数据的描述性分析。
共 210 人对发给他们的问卷做出了回应。其中，164 人被认为是进一步分析的对象，因为其余人没有提供完整的背景信息或问卷未完成。医学生对精神病学、精神障碍、精神病患者和精神治疗存在多种知识空白。一个潜在的促成因素可能是忽视了精神病学作为本科阶段的一门学科。医学生对精神病学、精神障碍、精神病患者和精神治疗存在多种知识空白。
