Physicians and alcoholics. The effect of medical training on attitudes toward alcoholics.
The over-all ratings assigned by first- and second-year medical students and housestaff (residents and interns) to alcoholics on a 16-adjectivee bipolar semantic differential measure differed significantly. Mean ratings by the housestaff were lowest and the ratings by the second-year students were lower than those of the first-year students on 5 of the 6 adjective pairs on which the groups differed significantly.
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000209:etiology; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005639:Frustration; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009042:Motivation; D011379:Prognosis; D012659:Semantic Differential; D012938:Social Perception; D013337:Students, Medical; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires