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A WORLD PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION INITIATIVE TO INCREASE INTEREST IN PSYCHIATRY AS A CAREER IN QATAR MEDICAL STUDENTS: A PILOT STUDY
Ahmed Hankir
; South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Maudsley Hospital, London, UK; Centre for Mental Health Research in association with University of Cambridge (CMHR-CU), Cambridge, UK
Abdallah Tom
; School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Hania Ibrahim
; School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Aicha Hind Rifai
; School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Durre Shahwar
; School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Muhammad Waqar Azeem
; School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar; Department of Psychiatry, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
Afzal Javed
; World Psychiatric Association, Geneva, Switzerland; Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Zainab Kikelomo Imam
; School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar ; Department of Psychiatry, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
Rashid Zaman
; Centre for Mental Health Research in association with University of Cambridge (CMHR-CU), Cambridge, UK; Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, UK
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Introduction: The World Health Organization identified a chronic shortage of psychiatrists in Low- Middle- and High-Income
Countries. In Qatar, the situation is dire with reports there is one psychiatrist per 170,000 people in the population. A one-day,
student-led mental-health conference was held in Doha, Qatar under the auspices of the World Psychiatric Association with the aim
of increasing interest in psychiatry as a career.
Subjects and methods: In this single-arm, pre-post comparison study, a questionnaire assessing interest in psychiatry as a
career was administered on participants before and after attending the conference. Demographic information was obtained and
response items were on a 5-point Likert scale. Statistical analysis was performed using a two-sample t-test with a significant p-value
set at <0.05.
Results: The conference was attended by 102 individuals. Fifty-four attendees completed the pre-conference survey (53%
response rate) and 36 participants completed the post-conference survey (35% response rate). Data for the 36 matched pre-post
responses were included in our analyses. The average age of respondents was 22 years and 81% were female. There was
improvement in post-conference results however these changes were not statistically significant.
Conclusion: To the best of our knowledge this is the first intervention study on increasing interest in psychiatry as a career
carried out in Qatar. It is likely that psychiatry enthusiasts attended the conference and therefore their interest in this medical
specialty was already high as corroborated by the favorable pre-conference survey results. This might explain why there was a lack of statistical significance in comparison to post- intervention scores. We recommend that such an event be integrated into the medical school curricula throughout Qatar to include students with low baseline interest in psychiatry. Further research in this area with more robust methodology is urgently needed to help narrow the pervasive treatment gap.
Ključne riječi
recruitment in psychiatry; medical students; World Psychiatric Association; Qatar
Hrčak ID:
262503
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Datum izdavanja:
24.3.2020.
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