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Table 2 Efficacy (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

4. If someone in my family was very emotionally upset and the situation did not seem to be improving, I would recommend a psychiatric consultation.

85.6

11.1

1.3

2

87.6

11.7

0.7

0.0

1.0

.32,ns

5. Psychiatric consultation for medical or surgical patients is often helpful.

52.3

41.1

5.9

0.7

65.3

30.7

3.3

0.7

2.11

.03

6. Psychiatric treatment is helpful to most people who receive it.

31.3

57.5

10.5

0.7

51.6

43.8

4.6

0.0

3.58

.0003

  1. SA = Strongly agree; MA = Moderately agree; MD = Moderately disagree; SD = Strongly disagree.