Status quo of German-speaking medical students' attitudes toward and knowledge about central aspects of forensic psychiatry across four European countries.

Autor: Warnke I; Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Falkenplatz 16-18, 3012 Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address: ingeborg.warnke@fpd.unibe.ch., Gamma A; Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Falkenplatz 16-18, 3012 Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address: alex.gamma@fpd.unibe.ch., Buadze A; Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zürich, Lenggstrasse 31, 3032 Zürich, Switzerland. Electronic address: anna.buadze@puk.zh.ch., Schleifer R; Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Falkenplatz 16-18, 3012 Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address: roman.schleifer@fpd.unibe.ch., Canela C; Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Falkenplatz 16-18, 3012 Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address: carlos.canela@fpd.unibe.ch., Rüsch N; Department of Psychiatry II, University of Ulm and BKH Günzburg, Parkstrasse 11, D-89073 Ulm, Germany. Electronic address: nicolas.ruesch@uni-ulm.de., Rössler W; Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zürich, Lenggstrasse 31, 3032 Zürich, Switzerland; Institute of Psychiatry, Laboratory of Neuroscience (LIM 27), University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: wulf.roessler@uzh.ch., Strebel B; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Protestant Hospital Hagen-Haspe, Brusebrinkstr. 20, D-58135 Hagen, Germany. Electronic address: pandel@evk-haspe.de., Tényi T; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Pécs Medical School, Szigeti str 12, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary. Electronic address: tenyi.tamas@pte.hu., Liebrenz M; Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Falkenplatz 16-18, 3012 Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address: michael.liebrenz@fpd.unibe.ch.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International journal of law and psychiatry [Int J Law Psychiatry] 2018 May - Jun; Vol. 58, pp. 9-16. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Mar 03.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2018.02.003
Abstrakt: While forensic psychiatry is of increasing importance in mental health care, limited available evidence shows that attitudes toward the discipline are contradictory and that knowledge about it seems to be limited in medical students. We aimed to shed light on this subject by analyzing medical students' central attitudes toward and their association with knowledge about forensic psychiatry as well as with socio-demographic and education-specific predictor variables. We recruited N = 1345 medical students from 45 universities with a German language curriculum across four European countries (Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Hungary) by using an innovative approach, namely snowball sampling via Facebook. Students completed an online questionnaire, and data were analyzed descriptively and multivariably by linear mixed effects models and multinomial regression. The results showed overall neutral to positive attitudes toward forensic psychiatry, with indifferent attitudes toward the treatment of sex offenders, and forensic psychiatrists' expertise in the media. Whereas medical students knew about the term 'forensic psychiatry', they showed a lack of specific medico-legal knowledge. Multivariable models on predictor variables revealed statistically significant findings with, however, small estimates and variance explanation. Therefore, further research is required along with the development of a refined assessment instrument for medical students to explore both attitudes and knowledge in forensic psychiatry.
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