Medical students' attitudes toward psychiatry at a teaching institute in North India: A qualitative pilot study

IF 0.2 Q4 PSYCHIATRY
Nitisha Verma, Mokshika Yadav, Sudhir Kumar, S. Kar
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Background: Medical students must embrace psychiatry and psychiatric illnesses with a positive outlook if we are to bridge the massive treatment gap for psychiatric illnesses. The opinions of medical students toward psychiatry have been investigated in several quantitative research carried out in India. Qualitative research is lacking, making it difficult to comprehend students' perspectives. Hence, we created this qualitative study. Methods: We conducted online one-on-one in-depth interviews with three final-year students and two interns in this pilot study. The data were examined using content analysis. In addition, the most frequent codes were found using word cloud analysis. Results: Participants reported that students would get more knowledge about psychiatry if it is made a compulsory examination subject in the MBBS. Conclusion: The preliminary findings suggest that medical graduates mostly perceive psychiatry as a promising branch and feel that psychiatry as a branch will get its due importance if it is made a major subject in the medical curriculum.
印度北部一所教学机构的医学生对精神病学的态度:定性试点研究
背景:医学生必须以积极的态度接受精神病学和精神疾病,这样才能弥补精神疾病治疗方面的巨大差距。印度开展的多项定量研究调查了医学生对精神病学的看法。由于缺乏定性研究,因此很难理解学生的观点。因此,我们开展了这项定性研究。研究方法在这项试验性研究中,我们对三名毕业班学生和两名实习生进行了一对一的在线深度访谈。我们使用内容分析法对数据进行了研究。此外,我们还使用词云分析找到了最常见的代码。结果参与者表示,如果将精神病学作为医学学士学位的必考科目,学生将获得更多有关精神病学的知识。结论初步研究结果表明,医学毕业生大多认为精神病学是一个很有前途的学科,并认为如果将精神病学作为医学课程的主要科目,该学科将得到应有的重视。
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