Mistreatment of university students most common during medical studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study concerns the occurrence of various forms of mistreatment by staff and fellow students experienced by students in the Faculty of Medicine and the other four faculties of the University of Oulu, Finland.

Methods

A questionnaire with 51 questions on various forms of physical and psychological mistreatment was distributed to 665 students (451 females) after lectures or examinations and filled in and returned. The results were analysed by gender and faculty. The differences between the males and females were assessed statistically using a test for the equality of two proportions. An exact two-sided P value was calculated using a mid-P approach to Fisher's exact test (the null hypothesis being that there is no difference between the two proportions).

Resul

SUBMITTER: Rautio A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1285362 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature