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Assessing Geriatric Attitudes among Medical Students
| datacite.subject.fos | Ciências Médicas::Ciências da Saúde::Medicina | por |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Patto, Maria da Assunção Morais e Cunha Vaz | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Pereira, Henrique Marques | |
| dc.contributor.author | Osório, Diana Filipa Pereira | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-22T17:17:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-04-24T00:30:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-05-26 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2021-04-27 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: Geriatrics, defined as the medical specialty that studies and treats the elderly population has been assuming an increasing importance. Bearing in mind that the geriatric population occupies a high rate of consumption of health care and knowing that health professionals are the ones who most need to provide the best possible care, there is an urgent need to evaluate their attitudes toward the elderly and infer how these same attitudes interfere with the provision of care. The main objective of this study is to adapt the “UCLA Geriatric Attitudes Scale” in Portuguese to medical students so that it can later be applied to other health professionals in the most varied contexts. Our second objective was the evaluation, through the application of “UCLA Geriatrics Attitude Scale” of the changes, or absence thereof, of the attitudes of students from the 3rd to the 5th years of the Integrated Master’s in Medicine towards the geriatric population. Methods: The eligible population to be studied was composed of 172 students of the 3rd year, whose response rate was 39.53% (68 responses) and 166 students of the 5th year with a response rate of 36.14% (60 responses). Therefore, a total of 128 responses were obtained, for a total of 338 students. After informed consent, the sample responded to a scale that had been previously translated by certified professionals after authorization by the authors. After the application phase of the research questionnaires, the data collected were processed using the software Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS), version 26 with a significance level of 0.05. Results: Bearing in mind that higher scores correspond to better attitudes, the following results were obtained: the UCLA-GA scale total median score did not differ between academic years (p=.903), sexes (p=.124) or between students with and without close contact with elderly (p=.070) but was higher in single students comparing with married ones (p=.002). Only the students’ current average grade was a significant predictor, with the UCLA-GA score increasing an average of 0.8 points per each value in the student average grade (ß=0,847; 95% CI 0,201-1,492; p=.011). Conclusion: Considering the growing panorama of an aging population, measures should be implemented to study and to improve attitudes towards older people. Globally, the population sample studied shows very favorable attitudes from the students towards the geriatric population. | eng |
| dc.identifier.tid | 202789110 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/11325 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | por |
| dc.subject | Aging | por |
| dc.subject | Geriatric | por |
| dc.subject | Geriatric Attitudes | por |
| dc.subject | Medical Students Attitudes | por |
| dc.subject | Ucla | por |
| dc.title | Assessing Geriatric Attitudes among Medical Students | por |
| dc.type | master thesis | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rcaap.embargofct | dados temporariamente confidenciais | por |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | masterThesis | por |
| thesis.degree.name | Mestrado Integrado em Medicina | por |
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