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Medical student attitudes towards older people: a critical review of quantitative measures.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Medical students' attitudes towards older persons - a systematic review and meta-analysis.Medical education online · 2026Pooled it
- Scales used to assess ageism in the health care sector: a (COSMIN) systematic review of the measurement properties.BMC geriatrics · 2025Pooled it
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- ChatGPT's Attitude, Knowledge, and Clinical Application in Geriatrics Practice and Education: Exploratory Observational Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Observational
- A Psychometric Analysis of the Polish Online Version of the Aging Semantic Differential Scale (ASD).Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Article
- Enhancing Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Older Adults Through an Artificial Intelligence Virtual Simulation: A Mixed-Method Design.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Nursing Students' Attitudes toward Older Adults: A Pre/Post-Study.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- Attitudes towards older adults (80 years and older): A measurement with the ageing semantic differential - A cross-sectional study of Austrian students.International journal of older people nursing · 2022Article
- Empathy as a Factor Conditioning Attitudes towards the Elderly among Physiotherapists-Results from Poland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Geriatric Educational Interventions for Physicians Training in Non-Geriatric Specialties: A Scoping Review.Journal of graduate medical education · 2021Article
- Implementation of a Healthcare of Elderly Course With Multi-Professional Teachers for Undergraduate Medical Students in a Public University in Malaysia-A Quasi-Experimental Pre and Post Study.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
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- Effects of a geriatric education program for emergency physicians: a mixed-methods study.Health education research · 2020Article
- Preparing for the future: The changing demographic composition of hospital patients in Denmark between 2013 and 2050.PloS one · 2020Article
- Facilitating a change model in age-friendly hospital certification: Strategies and effects.PloS one · 2019Observational
- Effect of Clinical Rotations in Domiciliary Dental Care on Dental Students' Attitudes, Empathy, and Perceptions Towards Institutionalized Older Adults in Zurich in Switzerland.Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric DentistryArticle
- Impact of an Interprofessional Health Student Education Program on Older Adult Participants.Gerontology & geriatric medicineArticle
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Abstract
objectivesFurther research into medical student attitudes towards older people is important, and requires accurate and detailed evaluative methodology. The two objectives for this paper are: (1) From the literature, to critically review instruments of measure for medical student attitudes towards older people, and (2) To recommend the most appropriate quantitative instrument for future research into medical student attitudes towards older people.
resultsA SCOPUS and Ovid cross search was performed using the keywords Attitude and medical student and aged or older or elderly. This search was supplemented by manual searching, guided by citations in articles identified by the initial literature search, using the SCOPUS and PubMed databases. International studies quantifying medical student attitudes have demonstrated neutral to positive attitudes towards older people, using various instruments. The most commonly used instruments are the Ageing Semantic Differential (ASD) and the University of California Los Angeles Geriatric Attitudes Scale, with several other measures occasionally used. All instruments used to date have inherent weaknesses. A reliable and valid instrument with which to quantify modern medical student attitudes towards older people has not yet been developed. Adaptation of the ASD for contemporary usage is recommended.
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