Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University, Sunway campus, Malaysia.
BMJ Open. 2013 May 28;3(5):e002755. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002755.
HIV/AIDS-related stigma affects the access and utilisation of health services. Although HIV/AIDS-related stigma in the health services has been studied, little work has attended to the relationship between professional development and stigmatising attitudes. Hence, in this study, we will extend earlier research by examining the relationship between the stage of professional development and the kinds of stigmatising attitudes held about people living with HIV/AIDS.
A serial cross-sectional design will be combined with a two-point in time longitudinal design to measure the levels of stigma among healthcare students from each year of undergraduate and graduate courses in Malaysia and Australia. In the absence of suitable measures, we will carry out a sequential mixed methods design to develop such a tool. The questionnaire data will be analysed using mixed effects linear models to manage the repeated measures.
We have received ethical approval from the Monash MBBS executive committee as well as the Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee. We will keep the data in a locked filing cabinet in the Monash University (Sunway campus) premises for 5 years, after which the information will be shredded and disposed of in secure bins, and digital recordings will be erased in accordance with Monash University's regulations. Only the principal investigator and the researcher will have access to the filing cabinet. We aim to present and publish the results of this study in national and international conferences and peer-reviewed journals, respectively.
艾滋病毒/艾滋病相关耻辱感会影响人们获得和使用卫生服务。尽管已经对卫生服务中的艾滋病毒/艾滋病相关耻辱感进行了研究，但很少有研究关注专业发展与污名化态度之间的关系。因此，在这项研究中，我们将通过检验专业发展阶段与对艾滋病毒/艾滋病感染者所持有的各种污名化态度之间的关系，扩展早期研究。
本研究将结合横断面设计和两点纵向设计，测量来自马来西亚和澳大利亚本科和研究生课程的医学生每年的耻辱感水平。在没有合适的测量工具的情况下，我们将采用序贯混合方法设计来开发此类工具。使用混合效应线性模型分析问卷调查数据，以管理重复测量。
我们已获得莫纳什医学学士执行委员会以及莫纳什大学人类研究伦理委员会的伦理批准。我们将在莫纳什大学（双威校区）的上锁文件柜中保存数据 5 年，之后信息将被粉碎并安全丢弃在专用垃圾桶中，数字记录将按照莫纳什大学的规定被删除。只有首席研究员和研究人员可以访问文件柜。我们旨在在国内和国际会议上展示和发表这项研究的结果，并分别在同行评议期刊上发表。
