Do medical student attitudes towards patients with chronic low back pain improve during training? a cross-sectional study

Morris, Hayley; Ryan, Cormac; Lauchlan, Douglas; Field, Max

doi:10.1186/1472-6920-12-10

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“…More than 18% of the graduates with 4 years of experience rated their clinical competency as inadequate, in contrast with only 4.8% of those with < 2 years of experience. These findings are consistent with what has been reported by Ochsmann et al and Morris et al [23,25] and might be explained by the fact that as the graduates acquire more experience they become more critical and objective in the assessment of their professional performance.…”

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How does the medical graduates' self-assessment of their clinical competency differ from experts' assessment?

Abadel

Hattab

2013

BMC Med Educ

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BackgroundThe assessment of the performance of medical school graduates during their first postgraduate years provides an early indicator of the quality of the undergraduate curriculum and educational process. The objective of this study was to assess the clinical competency of medical graduates, as perceived by the graduates themselves and by the experts.MethodsThis is a hospital based cross-sectional study. It covered 105 medical graduates and 63 experts selected by convenient sampling method. A self-administered questionnaire covering the different areas of clinical competency constructed on a five-point Likert scale was used for data collection. Data processing and analysis were performed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) 16.0. The mean, frequency distribution, and percentage of the variables were calculated. A non-parametric Kruskal Wallis test was applied to verify whether the graduates' and experts' assessments were influenced by the graduates' variables such as age, gender, experience, type of hospital, specialty and location of work at a (p ≤ 0.05) level of significance.ResultsThe overall mean scores for experts' and graduates' assessments were 3.40 and 3.63, respectively (p= 0.035). Almost 87% of the graduates perceived their competency as good and very good in comparison with only 67.7% by experts. Female and male graduates who rated themselves as very good were 33.8% and 25% respectively. More than 19% of the graduates in the age group > 30 years perceived their clinical competency as inadequate in contrast with only 6.2% of the graduates in the youngest age group. Experts rated 40% of the female graduates as inadequate versus 20% of males, (p= 0.04). More than 40% of the graduates in younger age group were rated by experts as inadequate, versus 9.7% of the higher age group >30 years (p = 0.03).ConclusionThere was a wide discrepancy between the graduates' self-assessment and experts' assessment, particularly in the level of inadequate performance. Graduates in general, and those of younger age groups in particular, tend to overestimate their clinical skills and competency.

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How does the medical graduates' self-assessment of their clinical competency differ from experts' assessment?

Abadel

Hattab

2013

BMC Med Educ

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“…22 Total HC-PAIRS scores of Saudi students and scores of all dimensions, except projected cognition, were higher than those of Brazilian followed by Australian students. A recent study showed that Australian physical therapy students had a total score of 40.2 on HC-PAIRS.…”

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confidence: 46%

“…The authors of the current study were not able to identify studies that investigated gender differences of physical therapy students on HC-PAIRS scores. However, in a study on medical students, Morris et al 22 difference for total HC-PAIRS scores between female and male students. The current study found no difference in the HC-PAIRS scores between students with a history of chronic LBP and those without.…”

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“…In another population of Australian physical therapy students, Latimer et al 6 showed that the students had lower HC-PAIRS scores following exposure to a specific teaching module regarding chronic LBP. In addition, a more recent study 22 found that medical students, who received formal training on chronic LBP management during their undergraduate degree, had lower HC-PAIRS scores when compared with business students, who did not receive this type of training.…”

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A comparison of the attitudes toward chronic low back pain in Saudi, Australian and Brazilian physical therapy students

Alshami

Albahrani

2015

Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences

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Objectives: The study aimed to: 1) translate the Health Care Providers' Pain and Impairment Relationship Scale (HC-PAIRS) questionnaire into Arabic version; 2) investigate the attitudes and beliefs of Saudi physical therapy students toward chronic Low Back Pain (LBP); and 3) compare the HC-PAIRS scores of our students with those of Brazilian and Australian students from published data.Methods: A back-translated Arabic version of the HC-PAIRS questionnaire was distributed to 150 students from the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years and was collected immediately upon completion. Published data for Brazilian and Australian students were compared with data from our students. Analyses of variance were used for all comparisons of the HC-PAIRS scores.Results: Response rate was 90%. No significant differences were found in the HC-PAIRS scores between students with chronic LBP and those without (P .10) or between students at different year levels (P .10). There were significant differences between our Saudi students and Brazilian and Australian students in the total score and all dimensions of HC-PAIRS (P < .05).Conclusion: This is the first study to translate HC-PAIRS into Arabic language. Compared with Brazilian and Australian students, Saudi physical therapy students

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“…Many studies have revealed that nursing students' lack of knowledge and negative attitude toward patients' pain and its management (Rahimi-Madiseh et al, 2010;Kaki, 2011;Morris et al, 2012;Al-Khawaldeh et al, 2013;Duke et al, 2013). The results of these studies as well showed that students tended to underestimate patients' reported intensity of pain and under-administer of the prescribed analgesic drug.…”

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Nursing student’s knowledge and attitudes toward pain management at Hail University, Saudi Arabia

Alsaqri¹

2018

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

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The objective of this study is to examine undergraduate nursing students' knowledge and attitudes toward pain management in the University of Hail and differences between groups defined in terms of socio-demographic and other selected characteristics students in knowledge and attitude with regard pain management scores. The descriptive, cross-sectional design included a sample of 150 undergraduates Saudi nursing students of the University of Hail in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia to investigate the knowledge and attitudes regarding pain management. The Knowledge and Attitudes Survey Regarding Pain scale (KASRP) was used to measure knowledge and attitudes regarding pain management. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and independent sample t test. Data were collected over a two month period from April 2017 through June 2017. Of the 220 distributed questionnaires; 150 completed questionnaires were returned. The data revealed that nursing students were found to have a lack of knowledge and attitudes towards pain management. The mean correct score for the entire scale was 41.8% (SD=3.71). Findings revealed that there were significant differences found in the students' scores related to the frequency of using pain scales (p<0.05). The study showed that Saudi students lacked the appropriate knowledge and attitudes regarding pain and its management and it is recommended that additional training education should be addressed.

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Do medical student attitudes towards patients with chronic low back pain improve during training? a cross-sectional study

Cited by 34 publications

References 16 publications

How does the medical graduates' self-assessment of their clinical competency differ from experts' assessment?

How does the medical graduates' self-assessment of their clinical competency differ from experts' assessment?

A comparison of the attitudes toward chronic low back pain in Saudi, Australian and Brazilian physical therapy students

Nursing student’s knowledge and attitudes toward pain management at Hail University, Saudi Arabia

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