Does Clinical Experience Affect Medical Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Compliance With Universal Precautions?

Jeffe, Donna B.; Mutha, Sunita; Kim, Lynn E.; Evanoff, Bradley; L'Ecuyer, Paul B.; Fraser, Victoria J.

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“…Social distancing can help reduce the peak incidence of an epidemic and spread it over several weeks instead of a few, thus avoiding a healthcare surge ( 6 ). Household quarantine is also effective at reducing attack rates in the community but only if the compliance rate is high ( 7 ). Knowledge regarding treatment of pandemic influenza is difficult to analyze because determining what measures would be effective is complex.…”

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Medical Students and Pandemic Influenza

Herman

Rosychuk

Bailey

et al. 2007

Emerg. Infect. Dis.

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Medical Students and Pandemic Influenza

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Bailey

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Emerg. Infect. Dis.

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“…The majority of the participants in these studies were qualified nurses or doctors and all the research was hospital-based. One study involved student nurses (Wang et al 2003), and three studies monitored medical students (Diekema et al 1995, Jeffe et al 1998, 1999. All of the studies applied a quantitative design, generally two groups of subjects and involved reassessment of compliance postintervention.…”

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A review of the evidence for suboptimal compliance of healthcare practitioners to standard/universal infection control precautions

Gammon¹,

Morgan-Samuel²,

Gould³

2007

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Compliance to infection control precautions is internationally suboptimal. The evidence confirms that compliance to specific aspects of standard/UPs varies, and practitioners are selective in their application of recommended practice. Compliance does improve following a structured intervention; however, research fails to indicate for how long the intervention affects practitioner compliance, or whether compliance after a period of time returns to the norm. Several reasons for non-compliance are discussed, and recommendations for future research are suggested. Relevance to clinical practice. Suboptimal compliance has significant implications for staff safety, patient protection and the care environment. Infection control teams and researchers need to consider the reasons for non-compliance and provide a supportive environment that is conducive to the routine, long-term application of standard precautions.

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“…Community Health was the second preferred specialisation, which is indeed a finding unique to this study; previous studies in India having reported Community Physiotherapy as a neglected profession (Rajan, 2012(Rajan, , 2013. This could again be due to the opportunities that students have at this particular training institute, to gain knowledge and foster their interests (Jeffe et al, 1998;Latimer et al, 2004). Therefore, such models could be replicated in other institutes to help increase the number of students interested in working as community physiotherapists.…”

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“…The year of the programme plays an important role in the understanding of the student (Jeffe et al, 1998). In the study by Jeffe et al (1998), a comparison was done between second, third and final year students in a medical school in the United States. The authors concluded that the timing of introduction of concepts is important as it affects the attitude towards and knowledge about a particular subject.…”

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“…The authors concluded that the timing of introduction of concepts is important as it affects the attitude towards and knowledge about a particular subject. More the clinical exposure, greater was the understanding of the student about the subject (Jeffe et al, 1998;Wessel and Larin, 2006). Teaching could help change the attitudes and beliefs of students regarding a particular subject (Latimer et al, 2004).…”

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Physiotherapy Students’ Awareness of Community Health in India

Rajan

2017

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Purpose:The study aimed to provide inputs that would help to promote Community Physiotherapy as a field of future study and work. While the focus was on undergraduate physiotherapy students' perceptions, attitudes and beliefs regarding this field of specialisation, the study also attempted to find whether there were variations in attitude depending on which year of the programme the students belonged to. Method:In December 2015, 118 students of a private physiotherapy college in Gujarat, India, took part in a self-administered questionnaire-based survey. Of these, 56 students were in the third year of their course, while the rest were in the final year. Written informed consent was taken from each respondent. Results:While it was a positive finding to note that this cohort viewed physiotherapy as a service profession, majority of the students wished to pursue higher education outside India due to their perceptions about lack of adequate training facilities, salaries and scope for the profession within the country. For the majority, Musculoskeletal sciences was the preferred area of specialisation, followed by Community Health. However, there was awareness about the importance of Community Physiotherapy. Conclusion:Among undergraduate physiotherapy students in the study sample, Musculoskeletal sciences is the preferred specialisation, followed by Community Physiotherapy. The year of the programme in which they were studying did not significantly affect their attitudes towards Community Physiotherapy. Limitations:The sample size was too small to compare the differing attitudes of participants from different batches of the course. First and second-year students could not be included since the specialisation of Community Physiotherapy is introduced only in the third year.

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Does Clinical Experience Affect Medical Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Compliance With Universal Precautions?

Abstract: Jeffe, Donna B.; Mutha, Sunitha; Kim, Lynn E.; Evanoff, Bradley A.; L'Ecuyer, Paul B.; and Fraser, Victoria J., "Does clinical experience affect medical students' knowledge, attitudes, and compliance with universal precautions?".

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Medical Students and Pandemic Influenza

Medical Students and Pandemic Influenza

A review of the evidence for suboptimal compliance of healthcare practitioners to standard/universal infection control precautions

Physiotherapy Students’ Awareness of Community Health in India

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