From: Impact of clerkship in the attitudes toward psychiatry among Portuguese medical students
Before (%) | After (%) | Statistics | ||||||||
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Question | SA | MA | MD | SD | SA | MA | MD | SD | Z | p |
7. Psychiatry is not a genuine and valid branch of medicine. | 1.3 | 1.3 | 15 | 82.4 | 5.9 | 1.3 | 5.2 | 87.6 | 0.4 | .68, ns |
8. Most psychiatrists are clear, logical thinkers. | 18.3 | 53.6 | 24.8 | 3.3 | 24.2 | 61.4 | 11.8 | 2.6 | 2.32 | .02 |
9. With few exceptions, clinical psychologists and social workers are just as qualified as psychiatrists to diagnose and treat emotionally disturbed persons. | 0.7 | 8.5 | 41.1 | 49.7 | 1.3 | 3.9 | 26.2 | 68.6 | 2.67 | .007 |
10. Among mental health professionals, psychiatrists have the most authority and influence. | 41.2 | 40.5 | 12.4 | 5.9 | 47.7 | 39.2 | 11.8 | 1.3 | 1.66 | .09,ns |
11. Psychiatrists are too frequently apologetic when teaching psychiatry. | 24.8 | 54.9 | 16.4 | 3.9 | 14.4 | 36.6 | 41.8 | 7.2 | 4.75 | .0000 |
12. Psychiatry is too ''biologically'' minded and not attentive enough to the patient's personal life and psychological problems. | 2 | 5.9 | 32 | 60.1 | 0.7 | 10.5 | 24.8 | 64 | 0.06 | .95,ns |
13. Psychiatry is too analytical, theoretical, and psychodynamic, and not attentive enough to patient's physiology. | 1.3 | 8.5 | 51.6 | 38.6 | 0.0 | 2.6 | 41.8 | 55.6 | -3.34 | .0008 |