Reducing Stigma Towards Psychiatry Among Medical Students

NCT03907696 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 4716-17-SMC
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 220
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study examines the effect of including a novel Anti-stigma Intervention Curriculum (ASIC) during a clinical rotation in psychiatry during medical school. It addresses stigma in medical students' perceptions of psychiatric patients, psychiatric illnesses and treatments, and the knowledge base of psychiatry in clinical practice. Medical students from eight hospitals were divided into intervention (one hospital, n=57) and control (seven hospitals, n=163) arms at the beginning of a 6-week psychiatry rotation throughout one academic year (2017/18). The students completed the Attitudes to Psychiatry scale (ATP-30) and the Attitudes toward Mental Illness scale (AMI) at rotation onset and conclusion. The ASIC was designed to target prejudices and stigma by direct informal encounters with people with severe mental illness (SMI) during periods of remission and recovery. Supervised small group discussions followed those encounters in order to facilitate processing of thoughts and emotions that ensued, and to discuss salient topics, including psychiatric care, evidence-based medicine in psychiatry, and the neuroscientific underpinnings of clinical psychiatry.

Conditions

Stigma, Social

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Attitude toward psychiatry (ATP) scale

  scale that measure stigma among medical students. 30 statements, scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Minimum score: 30; maximum score: 150; Higher scores indicate less stigma.

  6 weeks (psychiatric rotation)

• Attitude toward mental illness (AMI) scale

  scale that measure stigma among medical students. 30 statements, scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Minimum score: 20; maximum score: 100. Higher scores indicate less stigma.

  6 weeks (psychiatric rotation)

Study Arms (2)

Intervention

OTHER

The intervention arm participate in an educational program that aimed at reducing stigma

Other: Anti-stigma interventions curriculum

control

NO INTERVENTION

regular curriculum with no addition educational contents

Interventions

Anti-stigma interventions curriculum OTHER

educational curriculum aimed at reducing stigma

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• \- All medical students in psychiatric rotation during the academic year of 2017-2018 affiliated to Tel Aviv University

You may not qualify if:

• none

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Sheba Medical Center: lead

Study Sites (1)

Doron Amsalem

Tel Aviv, 6432633, Israel

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Amsalem D, Gothelf D, Dorman A, Goren Y, Tene O, Shelef A, Horowitz I, Dunsky LL, Rogev E, Klein EH, Mekori-Domachevsky E, Fischel T, Levkovitz Y, Martin A, Gross R. Reducing Stigma Toward Psychiatry Among Medical Students: A Multicenter Controlled Trial. Prim Care Companion CNS Disord. 2020 Feb 27;22(2):19m02527. doi: 10.4088/PCC.19m02527.

  PMID: 32135042 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Social Stigma

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Social Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• Doron Amsalem, MD

  Sheba Medical Center

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER GOV
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Raz Gross, MD, MPH, program director, Psychiatry

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 5, 2019
• First Posted: April 9, 2019
• Study Start: November 1, 2017
• Primary Completion: July 30, 2018
• Study Completion: July 30, 2018
• Last Updated: April 11, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

IL (1)