Table 5 Career and personal reward (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 |
16. Psychiatry has a low prestige among the general public. | 7.9 | 40.5 | 41.8 | 9.8 | 2.6 | 53.6 | 34 | 9.8 | 1.36 | 0.42,ns |
17. Psychiatry has a high status among other medical disciplines. | 3.3 | 23.5 | 64.7 | 8.5 | 2 | 41.8 | 51.6 | 4.6 | 2.64 | .008 |
18. Many people who could not obtain a residency position in other specialties eventually enter psychiatry. | 2 | 16.3 | 37.3 | 44.4 | 0.7 | 18.3 | 37.2 | 43.8 | .02 | .97,ns |
19. Psychiatry is a discipline filled with international medical graduates whose skills are of low quality. | 3.9 | 7.2 | 45.8 | 43.1 | 2 | 0.7 | 31.3 | 66 | 3.75 | .0001 |
20. My family discouraged me from entering psychiatry. | 11.8 | 19 | 17.6 | 51.6 | 4.6 | 26.1 | 26.1 | 43.2 | .18 | .85 |
21. Friends and fellow students discouraged me from entering psychiatry. | 9.2 | 19.6 | 31.3 | 39.9 | 3.3 | 24.2 | 30.7 | 41.8 | .84 | .39 |
22. If a student expresses interest in psychiatry, he or she risks being associated with a group of other would-be psychiatrists who are often seen by others as odd, peculiar, or neurotic. | 6.5 | 28.1 | 30.7 | 34.7 | 3.9 | 24.2 | 36.6 | 35.3 | .92 | .35,ns |
23. I feel uncomfortable with mentally ill patients. | 8.5 | 43.8 | 29.4 | 18.3 | 4.6 | 25.5 | 35.3 | 34.6 | 3.76 | .0001 |