Patra Suravi, Patro Binod Kumar
Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Department of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2017 Jan-Mar;59(1):100-105. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.204434.
Attitudes of teaching medical specialists are important in shaping medical students' attitudes toward psychiatry. Data on attitudes of teaching medical specialists of India toward psychiatry are limited.
The aim was to study the attitude of teaching medical specialists of an academic medical center in East India toward psychiatry.
This was a cross-sectional descriptive study.
We administered attitude toward psychiatry-30 (ATP 30) scale to teaching medical specialists of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, based on convenience sampling. Of 104 specialists contacted, 88 returned the completed questionnaire.
We carried out descriptive statistical analysis and expressed results in mean and standard deviation. We analyzed the association of demographic characteristics, specialization, and duration of professional experience with total ATP scores using Chi-square test. We used subgroup analysis to compare mean ATP scores in different demographic and professional groups. We used independent -test and ANOVA for between group comparisons.
The response rate was 84.62% with a mean ATP score of 88.60. Female gender and having a family member with mental illness was significantly associated with favorable ATP. Notable findings were that 97% of participants were favorable toward patients with psychiatric illness, 90% felt psychiatric interventions as effective whereas 87% found psychiatry unappealing and 52% said that they would not have liked to be a psychiatrist.
While favorable attitudes toward patients with psychiatric illness and psychiatric interventions may mean better patient care; unfavorable attitudes toward psychiatry as a career choice may adversely affect postgraduate recruitment rates.
医学专科教师的态度对于塑造医学生对精神病学的态度很重要。关于印度医学专科教师对精神病学态度的数据有限。
旨在研究印度东部一所学术医疗中心的医学专科教师对精神病学的态度。
这是一项横断面描述性研究。
我们基于便利抽样，对布巴内斯瓦尔全印度医学科学研究所的医学专科教师进行了精神病学态度-30（ATP 30）量表测试。在联系的104名专科教师中，88名返回了完整的问卷。
我们进行了描述性统计分析，并以均值和标准差表示结果。我们使用卡方检验分析人口统计学特征、专业和职业经历时长与ATP总分之间的关联。我们使用亚组分析来比较不同人口统计学和专业组的平均ATP得分。我们使用独立样本t检验和方差分析进行组间比较。
回复率为84.62%，平均ATP得分为88.60。女性以及有家庭成员患有精神疾病与积极的ATP显著相关。值得注意的发现是，97%的参与者对患有精神疾病的患者持积极态度，90%的人认为精神科干预有效，而87%的人觉得精神病学缺乏吸引力，52%的人表示他们不想成为精神科医生。
虽然对患有精神疾病的患者和精神科干预持积极态度可能意味着更好的患者护理；但对将精神病学作为职业选择持消极态度可能会对研究生招生率产生不利影响。
