Attitudes of Medical Students to Psychiatry in a Nigerian University

O. N. Buhari, A. D. Yussuf, P. O. Ajiboye, B. Issa, O. Adegunloye
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Background :Despite advances made in the understanding of psychiatric illness and its treatment, there is still a wide spread negative attitude to psychiatry. Medical students being part of the public also hold negative attitude to psychiatry. This negative attitude may influence their choice of psychiatry as a future career. The aim of this study was to examine medical students' attitude towards psychiatry at the beginning and end of clinical clerkship posting and to assess whether the clerkship posting influenced the likelihood of taking psychiatry as a future career. Methods : The ATP-30 questionnaire was administered to medical students in a University in the North-Central Nigeria at the beginning and end of clinical clerkship in psychiatry. Results : There was a fairly positive attitude to psychiatry at the beginning and end of the posting (mean ATP scores were 91.8 ± 7.6 and 92.5 ± 8.5 respectively). There was no statistically significant difference in ATP score after the posting. Only about 16% of the students would like to become psychiatrists at beginning of posting and this increased to only about 20% after the posting despite having a positive attitude to psychiatrists and psychiatric treatments. Conclusion : Medical schools need to improve the quality of the psychatric posting so as to impact positively on the attitude of students.
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尼日利亚一所大学医学生对精神病学的态度
背景:尽管对精神疾病及其治疗的认识取得了进步,但对精神病学的负面态度仍然普遍存在。医学生作为公众的一部分,对精神病学也持消极态度。这种消极的态度可能会影响他们选择精神病学作为未来的职业。摘要本研究旨在探讨医学生在临床见习开始和结束时对精神病学的态度,并评估见习是否会影响医学生未来以精神病学为职业的可能性。方法:采用ATP-30问卷对尼日利亚中北部一所大学精神病学临床实习开始和结束时的医学生进行问卷调查。结果:上岗期患者对精神病学的态度较为积极(ATP平均分分别为91.8±7.6分和92.5±8.5分)。发球后两组ATP得分差异无统计学意义。尽管对精神科医生和精神科治疗持积极态度,但在上岗之初,只有16%的学生愿意成为精神科医生,而在上岗后,这一比例上升到20%左右。结论:医学院需要提高精神科岗位的质量,以对学生的态度产生积极的影响。
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