Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University , Fukuoka , Japan.
Int Rev Psychiatry. 2013 Aug;25(4):378-84. doi: 10.3109/09540261.2013.812959.
Undergraduate psychiatric education has an important role in developing psychiatric knowledge, decreasing stigma towards mental illness, and promoting psychiatry as a career choice. The attitudes and beliefs of medical students towards psychiatry have not been well understood, especially in non-western countries. To clarify this aspect, we have conducted a cross-sectional study between India and Japan. This study, conducted at two centres, one each in India and Japan, used a semi-structured questionnaire to evaluate the attitudes and beliefs of third-year medical students towards mental illness and psychiatry; such as emotions experienced dealing with psychiatric patients, aetiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders, and psychiatry as a career choice. A total of 79 medical students from India and 77 from Japan participated in the present study. Significant differences were observed in the emotions experienced by the medical students while dealing with psychiatric patients. Most medical students (> 90%) from both study sites favoured psychiatrists for treatment of psychiatric illness. Psychiatry as a carrier choice was significantly related to the nationality of the medical students. The findings of the current study provide insight in to the attitudes of third-year medical students from India and Japan towards psychiatric patients.
本科精神病学教育在发展精神病学知识、减少对精神疾病的污名化以及促进精神病学作为职业选择方面发挥着重要作用。医学生对精神病学的态度和信念尚未得到很好的理解，特别是在非西方国家。为了阐明这一方面，我们在印度和日本进行了一项横断面研究。这项在印度和日本各一个中心进行的研究使用半结构化问卷评估了三年级医学生对精神疾病和精神病学的态度和信念；例如处理精神病患者时的情绪、精神障碍的病因和治疗以及精神病学作为职业选择。共有来自印度的 79 名医学生和来自日本的 77 名医学生参加了本研究。在处理精神病患者时，医学生所经历的情绪存在显著差异。大多数来自两个研究地点的医学生（>90%）都赞成精神科医生治疗精神疾病。作为职业选择的精神病学与医学生的国籍显著相关。本研究的结果深入了解了印度和日本三年级医学生对精神病患者的态度。
