Wyke Clementine, de Bernier Glori-Louise, Sin Fai Lam Chun Chiang, Holt Clare, Butler Sophie, Rajamani Anto Praveen Rajkumar, Wilson Jones Charlotte
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
University of Nottingham, UK.
BJPsych Bull. 2021 Apr;45(2):114-119. doi: 10.1192/bjb.2020.76.
This study evaluated a pilot psychiatry summer school for GCSE students in terms of participant experience, effects on attitudes to mental illness and perception of psychiatry as a career option. This was done using the Community Attitudes towards the Mentally Ill scale, career choice questionnaires and a discussion group following the week-long programme attended by 26 students.
Students were significantly more likely to choose psychiatry after the summer school (P = 0.01). There were statistically significant changes in scores for social restrictiveness (P = 0.04) and community mental health ideology (P = 0.02). Qualitative analysis generated four themes: variation in expectations, limited prior knowledge, perception of the summer school itself and uniformly positive attitudes to psychiatry after the summer school.
Targeting students at this early stage appears to be an underexplored positive intervention for improving both attitudes towards mental illness and recruitment to psychiatry.
本研究从参与者体验、对精神疾病态度的影响以及将精神病学视为职业选择的认知等方面，对面向普通中等教育证书（GCSE）学生的精神病学暑期学校试点进行了评估。这是通过使用《社区对精神疾病的态度量表》、职业选择问卷以及在为期一周的课程结束后由26名学生参加的讨论小组来完成的。
暑期学校结束后，学生选择精神病学的可能性显著增加（P = 0.01）。社会限制（P = 0.04）和社区心理健康观念（P = 0.02）的得分有统计学上的显著变化。定性分析产生了四个主题：期望的差异、先前知识有限、对暑期学校本身的认知以及暑期学校结束后对精神病学的一致积极态度。
在这个早期阶段针对学生似乎是一种未充分探索的积极干预措施，有助于改善对精神疾病的态度以及吸引学生投身精神病学领域。
