Attitude Towards Mental Illness Among Medical Students And Interns of a Medical College
| Autor: | Shreeyanta K C, Rika Rijal, Shubash Chandra Sharma, Astha Prasai |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Students Medical Attitude of Health Personnel Cross-sectional study education Teaching hospital Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Interpersonal relationship 0302 clinical medicine Medical illness Surveys and Questionnaires Mental hygiene Humans Medicine lcsh:R5-920 business.industry Mental Disorders Beneficence Internship and Residency General Medicine Mental illness medicine.disease Mental health 030227 psychiatry Cross-Sectional Studies Mental Health Family medicine Female lcsh:Medicine (General) business Effective teaching 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nepal Medical Association, Vol 56, Iss 213 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1815-672X 0028-2715 |
| DOI: | 10.31729/jnma.3716 |
| Popis: | Introduction: Mental health and physical health are interconnected. Attitude of medical professionals towards mentally ill affects the quality of care the patient receives. Today’s medical students are tomorrow’s medical practitioner. We conducted a study in a teaching hospital to assess the attitude towards mental illness among medical students and interns. Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was performed in 265 students in Kathmandu Medical College in August, 2017. Opinion about Mental Illness (OMI) questionnaire developed by Cohen and Struening was used. Results: Of the total participants, 49.8%(132) were male and 50.2%(133) were female. Medical students were more authoritarian, more benevolent and believed that mental illness is like any other medical illness. They showed neutral attitude in terms of social restriction of mentally ill and interpersonal relationship as a cause of mental illness. Conclusions: Positive attitude was seen only in terms of benevolence and mental hygiene ideology. Effective teaching and training programs is necessary to bring in positive attitude change towards mentally ill among medical students. |
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