The influence of patient-centered teaching on medical students' stigmatization of the mentally ill.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Stigmatization by healthcare workers poses a challenge to providing care to the mentally ill. Bedside teaching during undergraduate medical education offers students an opportunity to directly interact with patients with a range of psychiatric disorders and thereby gather reflective experience. The present study investigates if this supervised contact with mentally ill patients during a one-week clinical course on psychosomatic medicine leads to stigma reduction in medical students. The factors influencing stigmatization were also investigated.

Method

This was a prospective, non-randomized, controlled interventional study done in the 2019/20 winter semester involving fourth-year medical students who attended a week-long practical block on psychosomatic medicine (i

SUBMITTER: Hopp A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10407581 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature