ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2013
Differences in views of schizophrenia during medical education: a comparative study of 1st versus 5th-6th year Italian medical students.
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- Bringing Psychology Students Closer to People with Schizophrenia at Pandemic Time: A Study of a Distance Anti-stigma Intervention With In-presence Opportunistic Control Group.Journal of psychosocial rehabilitation and mental health · 2022Article
- Determinants of mental health professionals' attitudes towards recovery: A review.Canadian medical education journal · 2020Review
- Social distance in Lithuanian psychology and social work students and professionals.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2018Article
- The Influence of Causal Explanations and Diagnostic Labeling on Psychology Students' Beliefs About Treatments, Prognosis, Dangerousness and Unpredictability in Schizophrenia.Community mental health journal · 2016Article
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Abstract
purposeThis study explored medical students' causal explanations and views of schizophrenia, and whether they changed during medical education.
methodThe survey was carried out on medical students of the Second University of Naples, Italy, who attended their first-year and their fifth- or sixth-year of lessons. The 381 who accepted were asked to read a case-vignette describing a person who met the ICD-10 criteria for schizophrenia and then fill in the Opinions on mental illness Questionnaire.
resultsThe most frequently cited causes were psychological traumas (60%) and stress (56%), followed by misuse of street drugs (47%), and heredity (42%). 28% of students stated that persons with the disorder could be well again, and 28% that they were unpredictable. Labeling the case as "schizophrenia" and naming heredity among the causes were associated with pessimism about recovery and higher perception of social distance. First-year students more frequently reported psychological traumas among the causes (76 vs. 45%), and less frequently heredity (35 vs. 81%) and stress (42 vs. 69%), and they perceived less social distance from the "schizophrenics" than fifth/sixth-year students. In particular, 18% percent of first-year versus 38% of fifth/sixth-year students believed that these persons were kept at a distance by the other, and 45 versus 57% felt frightened by persons with the condition.
conclusionsThese results indicate a need to include education on stigma and recovery in schizophrenia in the training of medical students.
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