Perspectives of GCSE students attending a psychiatry summer school in south London.

ABSTRACT:

Aims and method

This study evaluated a pilot psychiatry summer school for GCSE students in terms of participant experience, effects on attitudes to mental illness and perception of psychiatry as a career option. This was done using the Community Attitudes towards the Mentally Ill scale, career choice questionnaires and a discussion group following the week-long programme attended by 26 students.

Results

Students were significantly more likely to choose psychiatry after the summer school (P = 0.01). There were statistically significant changes in scores for social restrictiveness (P = 0.04) and community mental health ideology (P = 0.02). Qualitative analysis generated four themes: variation in expectations, limited prior knowledge, perception of the summer school itself and

SUBMITTER: Wyke C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8112016 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature