An Assessment of Attitudes Towards People with Mental Illness Among Medical Students and Physicians in Ibadan, Nigeria

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• 作者：Adesuwa Ighodaro ; Elina Stefanovics ; Victor Makanjuola…
• 关键词：Education ; Mental illness ; Schools
• 刊名：Academic Psychiatry
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：June 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：39
• 期：3
• 页码：280-285
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• 作者单位：Adesuwa Ighodaro (1)
  Elina Stefanovics (2)
  Victor Makanjuola (3)
  Robert Rosenheck (2)
  
  1. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
  2. VA New England Mental Illness Research and Education Center, West Haven, CT, USA
  3. University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
  
• 刊物类别：Psychiatry; Medical Education;
• 刊物主题：Psychiatry; Medical Education;
• 出版者：Springer International Publishing
• ISSN：1545-7230

文摘

Objective The authors surveyed attitudes towards mental illness among Nigerian medical personnel at three different levels of training and experience: medical students who had not completed their psychiatry rotation, medical students who had competed their psychiatry rotation, and graduate physicians.