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- A Escolha da Especialidade Médica: Podem os Professores Universitários Influenciar na Decisão?Publication . Prazeres, José Filipe Chaves Pereira; Passos, Lígia; Loureiro, Manuel; Simões, José Augusto RodriguesA carreira profssional médica inicia-se com a importante decisão pela especialidade a ser seguida. Usualmente a escolha dos futuros especialistas é influenciada por factores pessoais (personalidade, estilo de vida, valores e interesses), pelas características da própria especialidade, além de experiências prévias. O contacto com a especialidade durante a formação pré-graduada pode ainda ser considerado um fator influenciador na escolha, visto que a sensibilização para a Medicina Geral e Familiar (MGF) teve alguma relevância para 23,4% dos médicos, num estudo anterior.
- COVID-19-Related Fear and Anxiety: Spiritual-Religious Coping in Healthcare Workers in PortugalPublication . Prazeres, José Filipe Chaves Pereira; Passos, Lígia; Simões, José Augusto Rodrigues; Simões, Pedro Augusto Gomes Rodrigues Marques; Martins, Carlos; Teixeira, AndreiaThe COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected the mental health of the general population, and for healthcare workers (HCWs) it has been no different. Religiosity and spirituality are known coping strategies for mental illnesses, especially in stressful times. This study aimed to describe the role of spiritual-religious coping regarding fear and anxiety in relation to COVID-19 in HCWs in Portugal. A cross-sectional quantitative online survey was performed. Socio-demographic and health data were collected as well as the Duke University Religion Index, Spirituality Scale, Fear of COVID-19 Scale, and Coronavirus Anxiety Scale. Two hundred and twenty-two HCWs participated in the study, 74.3% were female and 81.1% were physicians. The median age was 37 years (Q1, Q3: 31, 51.3). Religiosity was neither a significant factor for coronavirus-related anxiety nor it was for fear of COVID-19. Participants with higher levels in the hope/optimism dimension of the Spirituality Scale showed less coronavirus-related anxiety. Female HCWs, non-physicians, and the ones with a previous history of anxiety presented higher levels of fear and/or anxiety related to COVID-19. HCWs’ levels of distress should be identified and reduced, so their work is not impaired.
- Medical students’ trust in their Family PhysicianPublication . Prazeres, José Filipe Chaves Pereira; Passos, Lígia; Almeida, Patrícia Paiva De; Loureiro, Manuel; Santiago, Luiz Miguel de Mendonça Soares; Simões, José Augusto RodriguesTrust is an essential part of a good physician-patient relationship and measuring it allows to improve the healthcare system. Medical students can evaluate physicians’ technical competency more profoundly than a layperson, so it is possible to evaluate a less asymmetrical interpersonal trusting relationship than the one between physician and patient. This study aimed to: (i) measure the level of medical students’ trust in their family physicians; (ii) study the differences between medical students’ characteristics and the level of trust; and (iii) measure the attitudes towards doctors of medical students and their relationship to trust in family physicians. A cross-sectional study was carried out with a convenience sample of medical students from two Portuguese public universities. Students were invited to answer a web-based questionnaire that included sociodemographic and academic variables, the Trust in Physician Scale (TIPS) and the attitudes towards doctors’ factor of the Attitudes to Doctors and Medicine Scale. Data were analyzed using appropriate statistical methods. 172 medical students responded to the questionnaire. Most were female (74.4%) and the mean age was 23.7 (SD 2.3 years). 80.8% were students from the clinical cycle. A moderate trust in family physicians was found (mean total score of TIPS was 3.7 (SD 0.7), and a positive attitude toward doctors was more frequent than the negative one. Older age, good teaching quality in family medicine, and seeking family physicians for urgent care appear to be associated with students’ higher trust in family physicians, but this needs to be studied further using larger samples.