Impact of Psychiatry Posting on Attitudes Toward Mental Illness: A Prospective Cohort Study of Medical Students From Three Universities.

Autor: Akanni OO; Clinical Services, Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria., Eboreime-Oikeh IO; Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Igbinedion University, Okada, Nigeria., Oyeyemi OK; Department of Mental Health, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria., Olashore AA; Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of medical education and curricular development [J Med Educ Curric Dev] 2024 Aug 19; Vol. 11, pp. 23821205241275420. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 19 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1177/23821205241275420
Abstrakt: Introduction: Negative attitudes towards mental illness are known to exist among medical students in Nigeria. However, the effect of undergoing a rotation in psychiatry on their attitudes is uncertain.
Objectives: It aimed to determine the effect of psychiatry posting during medical training on medical students' attitudes toward mental illness and examine the association of posting-related and demographic factors with their attitudes.
Methods: It is a prospective cohort study in which 187 medical students from three different universities were followed up during their psychiatry postings in two different posting sites. Questionnaires containing basic demography, posting-related variables, and the Community Attitude to Mental Illness (CAMI) scale were administered to all available students before and after the rotation in psychiatry. A paired t-test was applied to test the differences in the CAMI scores before and after posting, while ANOVA and hierarchical regression were utilized to determine the association of variables with the CAMI scores.
Results: There were significant differences between the pre-and post-rotation CAMI scores in CAMI's social restrictiveness (SR) and community mental health ideology (CMHI) domains, indicating improved attitudes. Demographic factors had no significant influence on the students' attitudes, but the length of posting, university of the students, and posting sites had varying impacts.
Conclusion: Psychiatry rotation has a positive impact on students' attitudes toward mental illness in both posting sites, particularly in the domains of SR and CMHI. This underscores the importance of psychiatry training in medical education in changing the attitudes of future healthcare professionals.
Competing Interests: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
(© The Author(s) 2024.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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