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KMID : 0897520010060020166
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Journal of Korean Association of Social Psychiatry
2001 Volume.6 No. 2 p.166 ~ p.176
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The Attitudes and Concepts toward Mental Illness of Medical Students’ and Nursing Students’ : Effects of Psychiatric Clerkship
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Lee Won-Woo
Chang Eun-Jin
Jung Chul-Ho
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Abstract
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Objectives : This study was designed to evaluate the effects of psychiatric clerkship on medical students’ and nursing students’ attitudes and concepts toward mental illness.
Methods : For this study, 68 medical students and 63 nursing students who took psychiatric clerkship for 2 weeks were selected and were asked to answer a questionnaire about mental illness at the beginning and at the end of 2-week-long clerkship.
Results : 1) Before clerkship, the psychological, environmental concepts toward mental illness were significantly high in nursing students than medical students group. And the primitive, supernatural concepts toward mental illness were significantly low in protestant students than non-protestant students group.
2) The effects of psychiatric clerkship toward mental illness were significant changes of concepts and attitudes toward mental illness. The primitive, supernatural concepts and the negative attitudes toward mentally ill were much decreased. Sex and religion did not significantly affected the effects of psychiatric clerkship. The primitive, supernatural concepts toward mental illness were much decreased in nursing students group and group with family history of psychiatric illness.
Conclusion : Psychiatric clerkship of medical students and nursing students positively affected on attitudes and concepts toward mental illness. But the effects were different by their environments. Therefore, these finding suggest that diverse programs of clerkship for the purpose of improving the attitudes and concepts toward mental illness of medical and nursing students must be needed.
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KEYWORD
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Mental illness, Psychiatric clerkship, Medical student·Nursing student, Concepts and attitudes
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