Medical students' conceptualizations of quality of life associated with children with IBD.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim of the present study was to investigate second-year medical students' understanding of quality of life associated with childhood inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Methods

A cross-sectional study in a major teaching institution in San Francisco was carried out. A questionnaire was administered following an hour-long gastroenterology lecture, which featured 2 young patients with pediatric-onset IBD who addressed everyday life with the disease. Analyses of numerate responses to the questionnaire were paired with a content and thematic analysis of audiotape recordings of the patients' commentaries.

Results

Medical students' responses to the patient interviews were extremely positive. Medical students gained a new awareness of the psychosocial complexiti

SUBMITTER: Salazar G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3788836 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature