Attitudes of Medical Students Towards Psychiatry in Venezuela: a 6-Year Longitudinal Study

Medina-Ortiz, Oscar; Pulido, Luis; Sánchez-Mora, Nora; Bermúdez, Valmore; Pailhez, Guillem

doi:10.1007/s40596-021-01415-0

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“…Depression, as perceived by physicians in different countries, may be influenced by societal stigmas. For example, medical students’ attitudes toward mental illness in Venezuela may harm their attitudes as future physicians due to a lack of proper training for identifying and treating mental diseases such as depression ( Medina-Ortiz et al, 2021 ). In 2018, Vistorte et al found that, despite their proclivity to treat depression, most primary care physicians (PCPs) would prefer to refer these patients to a psychiatrist.…”

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Attitudes towards depression of Argentinian, Chilean, and Venezuelan healthcare professionals using the Spanish validated version of the revised depression attitude questionnaire (SR-DAQ)

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Attitudes towards depression of Argentinian, Chilean, and Venezuelan healthcare professionals using the Spanish validated version of the revised depression attitude questionnaire (SR-DAQ)

Camacho-Leon¹,

Faytong-Haro²,

Carrera³

et al. 2022

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“…Four articles in the December 2021 issue of Academic Psychiatry [3,4,7,8] add to the existing literature on medical student attitudes toward psychiatry worldwide. "Revisiting the ATP 30: The Factor Structure of a Scale Measuring Medical Students' Attitudes Towards Psychiatry" [4] reexamines the ATP-30 [5], which was originally found to have no meaningful subscales.…”

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“…"Attitudes of Medical Students Towards Psychiatry in Venezuela: A 6-year Longitudinal Study" [7] used a modified version of the APS to evaluate changes in students' attitudes from the first to the sixth year of education in one medical school. Medical students in this institution have both limited didactic and clinical exposure, with only 12 h of lectures integrated into the internal medicine curriculum and 4 h total of psychiatric care, specific to psychotic disorders.…”

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The Importance of Exploring Attitudes Toward Psychiatry, Past, and Present

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Attitudes of medical students toward psychiatry in Eastern Mediterranean Region: A systematic review

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BackgroundPsychiatry is facing one of the highest levels of shortages among medical specialties. Stigma toward psychiatry plays an influential role in medical students' decision to choose psychiatry as a career and has been reported to be prevalent in different parts of the world, particularly in low/middle-income countries.ObjectiveTo systematically review the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) medical students' attitudes toward psychiatry, to assess whether their attitudes are stigmatized or not, and the factors affecting their attitudes.MethodPubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and PsychInfo (PsycARTICLES) were searched using a combination of main terms “stigma,” “psychiatry,” “medical students,” and the name of Eastern Mediterranean countries. Cross-sectional studies assessing the attitudes of EMR medical students toward psychiatry were included in this review.ResultsTen studies were eligible to be included in the result synthesis. These were from Pakistan (n = 3), Iran (n = 2), Saudi Arabia (n = 1), Lebanon (n = 1), Egypt (n = 1), Bahrain (n = 1), and Oman (n = 1). Most studies reported a combination of both positive and negative attitudes among medical students; however, the overall attitude was positive. Factors affecting medical students' attitude toward psychiatry included poor psychological well-being, having a friend with a psychiatric illness, involving in a romantic relationship with someone suffering from mental illness, young age, frequency of exposure to psychiatry clerkship/teaching, and quality of psychiatry clerkship. Nevertheless, the final positive or negative outcome of these factors on students' attitudes remained controversial.ConclusionConsidering the lack of sufficient data from most EMR countries, we need to exercise caution in interpreting the results of this review. Nevertheless, our review indicates that psychiatry is not stigmatized among EMR medical students, and they have generally positive attitudes toward it. The findings of studies evaluating influencing factors are contradictory and demand further exploration.

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Attitudes of Medical Students Towards Psychiatry in Venezuela: a 6-Year Longitudinal Study

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Attitudes towards depression of Argentinian, Chilean, and Venezuelan healthcare professionals using the Spanish validated version of the revised depression attitude questionnaire (SR-DAQ)

Attitudes towards depression of Argentinian, Chilean, and Venezuelan healthcare professionals using the Spanish validated version of the revised depression attitude questionnaire (SR-DAQ)

The Importance of Exploring Attitudes Toward Psychiatry, Past, and Present

Attitudes of medical students toward psychiatry in Eastern Mediterranean Region: A systematic review

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