Attitudes of medical students towards psychiatry in QMC (Bahawalpur) Pakistan

Maqsood, Niaz; Ali, Wajid; Niaz, Saima; Chaudhry, Haroon Rashid; Malik, Jamil A.; Ahmad, Ishtiaq

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“…Compared with previous studies documenting negative attitudes toward psychiatry, what has changed over the years might be that various aspects of psychiatry have progressed and the field is rapidly expanding ( 4 , 48 , 55 ): accessible scientific evidence establishing psychotherapeutic treatments' effectiveness; the development of psychosomatic medicine applying to all medical diseases; improved quality of psychiatry teaching; growing prevalence of psychiatric diseases resulting in more exposure to the mentally-ill patients; and involvement with the acutely disturbed as well as successful cases of psychiatry may have exposed students to significance and advantages of psychiatry and challenged commonly held stigmatized view toward it.…”

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“…Regarding the geographical distribution of the reports, the studies were conducted in seven different countries within the EMR; three studies came from Pakistan ( 27 , 44 , 48 ), two from Iran ( 49 , 50 ), and others from Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, Bahrain and Oman ( n = 5) ( 43 , 45 – 47 , 51 ). Figure 2 depicts the geographical distribution of the reviewed studies.…”

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“…The sample size ranged from 130 to 635, with a total population of 3,567. Two studies included only clinical final year medical students ( 27 , 44 ), one included pre-clinical students ( 49 ), and others included a combination of both clinical and pre-clinical students ( 43 , 45 – 48 , 50 , 51 ). About twenty medical schools participated in the surveys.…”

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“…About twenty medical schools participated in the surveys. Seven studies conducted uni-center surveys (43,(46)(47)(48)(49)(50)(51) and others, excluding one that did not specify (52), conducted multicenter surveys with a minimum of 2 centers and a maximum of 7 (27, 44,45). The response rate ranged from 11% to 100%, with rates of over 80% in seven studies (63% of total studies).…”

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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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“…Medical graduates with a good attitude towards psychiatry are sometimes unable to pursue their career in this medical subspecialty. Even though some studies have been done in our part of world regarding psychiatry as a career and most of them have tended to identify only attitude of medical students (11)(12)(13)(14), yet hindrances in opting for psychiatry as a career have not been studied. Furthermore, most of the studies included medical students and have overlooked medical graduates and interns, who are at critical point of choosing their medical career in a particular specialty.…”

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Psychiatry as a career: A survey of factors affecting students’ interest in Psychiatry as a career

Aslam

Taj²,

Ali³

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The objectives of this study were to determine the characteristics of medical students and graduates interested in choosing psychiatry as a career and the obstacles in choosing this field of medicine. Two private and two public medical institutes were surveyed from June 2007 to August 2007. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to third, fourth and final year students and to medical graduates doing their internship in these four medical institutes.A total of 909 medical students and graduates participated in the study. Seventeen percent of participants responded positively regarding their interest in psychiatry as a career. Significantly higher proportion belonged to private medical institutes (14% vs. 24%, P-value =0.001). There was no significant difference in reporting interest for psychiatry in regard to age, sex, year in medical school and whether or not the participant had done a psychiatry ward rotation. However significantly higher proportion of participants (22%, n=43) were reporting their interest in the field of psychiatry who had done more than a month long psychiatry ward rotation as compared to those participants (14%, n=54) with less than a month or no psychiatry rotation (P-value=0.01). More students were reporting their interest in psychiatry with a family history of psychiatric illness as compared to without family history (24% vs 16%, P-value=0.03). In conclusion, students and graduates with more than a month long rotation in psychiatry, studying in private medical colleges and with a family history of psychiatric illness were more interested in choosing psychiatry as a career.

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Crisis communication for public organizations: Examining Pakistan Railways' use of information technology and social media for image repair

Kamboh,

Ittefaq,

Jin

2023

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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This study examines the induction of information technology and the use of image‐repair focused crisis response strategies on social media by Pakistan Railways amid a recent crisis. A mix‐method based content analysis (i.e., qualitative and quantitative) to investigate whether and if so, how Pakistan Railways used Benoit's suggested image restoration strategies on social media to repair its image among customers and in print media. Our results show that Pakistan Railways predominantly used reducing the offensiveness of event (40%), followed by corrective action (34.6%), evasion of responsibility (10.6%), denial (8%) and mortification (6.4%) strategies, respectively. In addition, the use of image‐repair focused crisis response strategies significantly varied by social media platform. An analysis of the publics' emotions found in their online comments reveals that, during the course of the organizational crisis communication, negative public emotions gradually subsided into ambivalent ones; and contrary to a highly negative newspaper coverage tone in the beginning of the crisis, the introduction of the Twitter handle has associated with more positive media coverage afterward. Theoretical and practical implications, especially the need for advancing social‐mediated crisis response effectiveness in developing countries, are discussed.

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Attitudes of medical students towards psychiatry in QMC (Bahawalpur) Pakistan

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

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Psychiatry as a career: A survey of factors affecting students’ interest in Psychiatry as a career

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