Medical student perceptions of mental illness: a cross-sectional transnational study in two medical schools.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite shifting global attitudes, mental illness remains highly stigmatised amongst practicing doctors. This has wider implications on doctors' training to care for patients with mental illness. There is need for exploration of the presence and mitigation of stigma in early medical education to prevent such attitudes propagating into clinical practice. Thus, this study explores whether stigmatising attitudes are detectable amongst medical students in London and Singapore and examines whether they are ameliorated by specific curricular and welfare features of formal medical education, utilising the Mental Illness Stigma Framework (MISF).

Methods

A mixed-methods approach was adopted. Medical students at Imperial College London (UK; n = 211) and Nanyang Technologica

SUBMITTER: Rees A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10731839 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature