tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Stigmatising attitude of medical students towards a psychiatry label."

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Stigmatising attitude of medical students towards a psychiatry label. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Stigmatising attitude of medical students towards a psychiatry label Olawale O Ogunsemi Olatunde Odusan and Michael O Olatawura Open Access Address Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital Sagamu Ogun State Nigeria Email Olawale O Ogunsemi - waleogunsemi@ Olatunde Odusan - tunsan2001@ Michael O Olatawura - dareolatawura@ Corresponding author Published 25 August 2008 Received 23 January 2008 Annals of General Psychiatry 2008 7 15 doi 1744-859X-7-15 Accepted 25 August 2008 This article is available from http content 7 1 15 2008 Ogunsemi et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Background The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of a psychiatric label attached to an apparently normal person on the attitude of final year medical students at a Nigerian university. Methods A questionnaire with sections on demographic information a single-paragraph case description illustrating a normal person a social distance scale and questions on expected burden was used to elicit responses from 144 final year medical students who have had previous exposure to psychiatric posting. The students consisted of two randomly assigned groups group A received a case description with a psychiatric label attached while group B received the same case description but without a psychiatric label. Results A total of 68 of the students responded to the questionnaire with the attached psychiatric label while 76 responded to the questionnaire without the attached label. There was no statistical difference in .