PMID- 35692060
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220803
LR  - 20220803
IS  - 2046-0260 (Electronic)
IS  - 2046-0252 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 4
DP  - 2022 Aug
TI  - Does the clerkship/internship in psychiatry affect medical students' level of 
      knowledge about schizophrenia, attitudes, and beliefs toward schizophrenia and 
      other mental disorders?
PG  - 571-579
LID - 10.1002/pchj.549 [doi]
AB  - Undergraduate medical students' attitudes and beliefs toward mental illnesses are 
      a crucial phenomenon as these students will be care providers of the future. The 
      current study aimed to analyze whether the psychiatry clerkship/internship 
      affects these students' level of knowledge about schizophrenia as well as their 
      attitudes and beliefs toward schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. A total of 
      158 medical students, 92 in their fifth year and 66 in their sixth year, were 
      included in the study. The participants completed the Knowledge About 
      Schizophrenia Questionnaire (KASQ), Beliefs toward Mental Illness Scale (BMI), 
      and Attitudes toward People with Mental Disorders Scale (APMDS) before and after 
      the psychiatry clerkship/internship. The KASQ and APMDS total scores were 
      significantly higher whereas BMI and BMI-Dangerousness subscale scores were 
      significantly lower after the clerkship/internship in psychiatry. 
      Postclerkship/internship KASQ total scores were negatively correlated with BMI 
      total scores and BMI-Dangerousness subscale scores. Additionally, BMI total 
      scores and APMDS total scores were also negatively correlated. Although the 
      change in KASQ scores was significantly associated with the decrease in BMI total 
      scores after the clerkship/internship, it was not associated with the increase in 
      APMDS total score in the hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis. In 
      conclusion, the present study revealed that knowledge about schizophrenia and 
      attitudes and beliefs toward mental illnesses improved significantly after the 
      clerkship/internship in psychiatry. While improvement in medical students' 
      knowledge about schizophrenia and mental illnesses is a predictor of the decrease 
      in negative beliefs about mental illnesses, a similar relationship was not found 
      regarding attitudes. This study not only provides information about the 
      relationship between knowledge about schizophrenia and attitudes and beliefs 
      about mental illness but also highlights the need to consider the multifactorial 
      nature of attitudes when developing intervention programs for medical students.
CI  - (c) 2022 Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and John Wiley & Sons 
      Australia, Ltd.
FAU - Akpinar Aslan, Esma
AU  - Akpinar Aslan E
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4714-6894
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University, 
      Tokat, Turkey.
FAU - Batmaz, Sedat
AU  - Batmaz S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0585-2184
AD  - Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Social 
      Sciences University of Ankara, Ankara, Turkey.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220612
PL  - Australia
TA  - Psych J
JT  - PsyCh journal
JID - 101598595
SB  - IM
MH  - Attitude of Health Personnel
MH  - *Clinical Clerkship
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Internship and Residency
MH  - *Mental Disorders
MH  - *Psychiatry
MH  - *Schizophrenia
MH  - *Students, Medical
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - attitude
OT  - belief
OT  - medical students
OT  - schizophrenia
EDAT- 2022/06/13 06:00
MHDA- 2022/08/04 06:00
CRDT- 2022/06/12 23:32
PHST- 2022/02/08 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/08/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/03/04 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/06/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/08/04 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/06/12 23:32 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/pchj.549 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psych J. 2022 Aug;11(4):571-579. doi: 10.1002/pchj.549. Epub 2022 Jun 12.