Objective To understand
students'
attitude changes before and after they started their internships in the department of
psychiatry and evaluate their teachers'
teaching methods.
Methods Using a
self-made
questionnaire of Psychiatric
Internship Attitude that has passed the
reliability and validity test, from 2015 to 2016, a total of 208 undergraduate
students in the
clinical medicine mental health direction of Chongqing Medical
University were selected through cluster random sampling to investigate their
attitude changes towards
psychiatry before and after they started their internships. At the end of their internships, another
self-made Psychiatric Teach Evaluation Forming
Questionnaire of the
reliability and validity test was used to preliminarily evaluate the
students' assessment of the
teaching situation of their teachers during the
internship. Results Before the internships, through the
survey we found that 44.2% of the
students felt nervous, 37.0% fearful, 57.2% compassionate, and the percentage of
students who were willing to
work in the department of
psychiatry is only 41.4%. Through investigation, teachers carried out the
teaching work with targeted
goals, at the end of the
internship the tension and
fear decreased to 0.0%, the proportion of
empathy rose to 78.4%, and the differences are statistically significant (P<0.05). Conclusion The
students'
attitude survey at the beginning of their
internship can help teachers improve their
teaching attitudes, con-cepts and
methods, and make
students' negative
attitudes towards
mental patients and
psychiatry significantly reduce.