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Development and Validation of a Questionnaire for Evaluation of Students’ Attitudes towards Family Medicine
Marija Petek Šter
orcid.org/0000-0003-1736-2377
; University of Ljubljana, School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Igor Švab
orcid.org/0000-0003-1303-4974
; University of Ljubljana, School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Zalika Klemenc-Ketiš
; University of Ljubljana, School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia and University of Maribor, School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Maribor, Slovenia
Janko Kersnik
; University of Ljubljana, School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia and University of Maribor, School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Maribor, Slovenia
Sažetak
The development of the EURACT (European Academy of Teachers in General Practice) Educational Agenda helped
many family medicine departments in development of clerkship and the aims and objectives of family medicine teaching.
Our aims were to develop and validate a tool for assessment of students’ attitudes towards family medicine and to evaluate
the impact of the clerkship on students’ attitudes regarding the competences of family doctor. In the pilot study, experienced
family doctors were asked to describe their attitudes towards family medicine by using the Educational Agenda
as a template for brainstorming. The statements were paraphrased and developed into a 164-items questionnaire, which
was administered to 176 fi nal-year students in academic year 2007/08. The third phase consisted of development of a
fi nal tool using statistical analysis, which resulted in the 60-items questionnaire in six domains which was used for the
evaluation of students’ attitudes. At the beginning of the clerkship, person-centred care and holistic approach scored
lower than the other competences. Students’ attitudes regarding the competences at the end of 7 weeks clerkship in family
medicine were more positive, with exception of the competence regarding primary care management. The students who
named family medicine as his or her future career choice, found holistic approach as more important than the students
who did not name it as their future career. With the decision tree, which included students’ attitudes to the competences
of family medicine, we can successfully predict the future career choice in family medicine in 93.5% of the students. This
study reports on the fi rst attempt to develop a valid and reliable tool for measuring attitudes towards family medicine
based on EURACT Educational Agenda. The questionnaire could be used for evaluating changes of students’ attitudes
in undergraduate curricula and for prediction of students’ preferences regarding their future professional career in family
medicine.
Ključne riječi
undergraduate students; attitudes; competences of family doctor; EURACT Educational Agenda
Hrčak ID:
147672
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Datum izdavanja:
30.3.2015.
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