Table 1 Overall merits of psychiatry (percentage of students)
From: Impact of clerkship in the attitudes toward psychiatry among Portuguese medical students
Before (%) | After (%) | Statistics | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Question | SA | MA | MD | SD | SA | MA | MD | SD | Z | p |
1. Psychiatric research has made good strides in advancing care of the major mental disorders. | 41.9 | 51.6 | 6.5 | 0.0 | 52.3 | 45.7 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 2.03 | .04 |
2. Psychiatry is a rapidly expanding frontier of medicine. | 13.7 | 58.8 | 26.2 | 1.3 | 20.3 | 66.6 | 12.4 | 0.7 | 2.62 | .008 |
3. Psychiatry is unscientific and imprecise. | 4.0 | 23.5 | 50.3 | 22.2 | 0.6 | 11.1 | 49.7 | 38.6 | -3.57 | .0003 |