PMID- 33703935
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20211029
LR  - 20211029
IS  - 1552-6127 (Electronic)
IS  - 1090-1981 (Linking)
VI  - 48
IP  - 4
DP  - 2021 Aug
TI  - Effect of Disability-Specific Education on Student Attitudes Toward People With 
      Disabilities.
PG  - 532-539
LID - 10.1177/1090198121995774 [doi]
AB  - Attitude is a multidimensional and complex notion that considerably empowers or 
      limits the major life activities of humans. Health professionals' attitudes 
      toward people with disabilities are significant factors in the rehabilitation 
      process. Soon after completing their coursework, the final-year students from 
      health science meet the patients and rehabilitate them. This study accordingly 
      aims to assess the attitude toward disability among final-year health science 
      students before and after administering a disability-specific structured teaching 
      program. A total of 243 final-year undergraduate health science students from 
      medical, dental, physical therapy, pharmacy, laboratory sciences, radiology 
      sciences, and nursing aged between 21 and 27 years participated in this study. 
      This work employed the Scale of Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons (SADP) to 
      measure attitudes among participants. The mean pre- and posttest SADP scores were 
      83.59 +/- 15.45 and 107.83 +/- 62, respectively (p < .001). Students from medical, 
      dental, physical therapy, and nursing showed significant positive attitudes 
      toward disability compared with other students, whereas college students in the 
      final year of health science generally had poor attitudes toward disability. The 
      results indicate that the disability-specific structured teaching program is 
      effective in improving the attitude toward disability among final-year health 
      science students. Accordingly, the authors recommend modifying the 
      disability-related content in the health sciences curriculum.
FAU - Alahmari, Khalid A
AU  - Alahmari KA
AD  - King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Rengaramanujam, Kanagaraj
AU  - Rengaramanujam K
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0244-7645
AD  - King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Reddy, Ravi Shankar
AU  - Reddy RS
AD  - King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Silvian Samuel, Paul
AU  - Silvian Samuel P
AD  - King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Ahmad, Irshad
AU  - Ahmad I
AD  - King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Nagaraj Kakaraparthi, Venkata
AU  - Nagaraj Kakaraparthi V
AD  - King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Tedla, Jaya Shanker
AU  - Tedla JS
AD  - King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20210311
PL  - United States
TA  - Health Educ Behav
JT  - Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public 
      Health Education
JID - 9704962
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Attitude of Health Personnel
MH  - Curriculum
MH  - *Disabled Persons
MH  - Humans
MH  - Students
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Young Adult
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - attitude
OT  - disability
OT  - health science
OT  - structured education
OT  - students
EDAT- 2021/03/12 06:00
MHDA- 2021/10/30 06:00
CRDT- 2021/03/11 12:23
PHST- 2021/03/12 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/10/30 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/03/11 12:23 [entrez]
AID - 10.1177/1090198121995774 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Health Educ Behav. 2021 Aug;48(4):532-539. doi: 10.1177/1090198121995774. Epub 
      2021 Mar 11.