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- Title
ATTITUDE OF GIRLS MEDICAL STUDENTS TOWARDS PSYCHIATRY.
- Authors
AKHUNZADA, WAJID ALI; ABBAS, AMER; AKMAL, MUHAMMAD
- Abstract
OBJECTIVE To find out the attitude of girls medical students towards Psychiatry. DESIGN Cross sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY This study was a conducted in Khyber Girls Medical College (KGMC) Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). SUBJECTS AND METHODS Students were selected and divided in two groups first group was labeled as cases and consisted of 3rd, 4th and final year students. Second group consisted of 1st and 2nd year students and was labeled as controls.. There were 86 students included in case group and 98 in the control group. Attitude towards psychiatry was assessed by a validated scale called attitude towards psychiatry scale (ATP-30). SPSS Version 19 was used for data and statistical analysis. Student's t-test was applied to find out the statistical significance. RESULTS Questions in ATP-30 scale were divided in to four sets in assess student's attitude towards different aspect of psychiatry. These aspects were. Psychiatric patients and psychiatric illness; Psychiatrist and subject psychiatry; Psychiatric knowledge and teaching; and Psychiatric treatment and hospitals. Overall both groups showed positive attitude towards psychiatry. There was some statistically significant difference between the two groups regarding some important items on the ATP-30, while the rest of majority items had a neutral response. These differences between the two groups may be due the fact that the control group consisting of 1st year and 2nd year students had limited exposure to clinical psychiatry as compare to the clinical students group. CONCLUSIONS Overall both groups showed positive attitude towards psychiatry. There was some statistically significant difference between the two groups regarding some important items on the ATP-30, while the rest of majority items had a neutral response. However, first and second year students with limited exposure to psychiatry consider psychiatric hospitals to be more like prisons. There is number of reasons for this attitude such as negative portrayal of psychiatric hospital and treatment in the media and reduced exposure of medical students to psychiatry due to competition from other medical departments for curriculum time in medical schools.
- Subjects
MEDICAL students; PSYCHOTHERAPY patients; PATHOLOGICAL psychology; PSYCHIATRIC hospitals; PSYCHIATRY education; MEDICAL schools; MEDICAL education; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
Journal of Pakistan Psychiatric Society, 2015, Vol 12, Issue 1, p59
- ISSN
1726-8710
- Publication type
Article