Smith I K, Lancaster C J, Delbene V E, Fleming G A
Office of Educational Services, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425.
Med Educ. 1990 Mar;24(2):164-70. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1990.tb02516.x.
There is general agreement that medical school curricula should involve the teaching of preventive health behaviours. Locus of control is a personality variable that has been associated with health practices and may be associated with tendencies to promote health practices. Few significant relationships have been found correlating health locus of control beliefs with preventive health behaviours. This study investigated the health locus of control of medical students and their tendencies to talk about and teach breast self-examination to women patients. Women students' health locus of control and breast self-examination practices were also investigated. The authors conclude that health locus of control has little influence on the tendency of medical students to promote breast self-examination. Other factors apparently have more effect on the student doctor's tendencies to promote health practices.
人们普遍认为医学院课程应包含预防健康行为的教学。控制点是一种人格变量，它与健康行为有关，可能也与促进健康行为的倾向有关。很少发现健康控制点信念与预防健康行为之间存在显著关联。本研究调查了医学生的健康控制点以及他们向女性患者谈论和教授乳房自我检查的倾向。还调查了女学生的健康控制点和乳房自我检查行为。作者得出结论，健康控制点对医学生促进乳房自我检查的倾向影响很小。其他因素显然对实习医生促进健康行为的倾向影响更大。
