Mental Health
Conditions
Keywords
medical students, professionalism, medical education, study emotion
Brief summary
The doctor-patient relationship was becoming worse. More and more work-related violence has happened to physicians and nurses. A portion of medical students felt depressed and thought that the career future was gloomy. The study was designed to measure the empathy, an vital element of professionalism, well-being of mental and study emotion. Furthermore, the investigators explored an intervention of group study to promote medical students' professionalism, mental health and study emotion.
Detailed description
A total number of 200 junior medical students are going to be enrolled according to inclusive criteria. They are divided into two groups, one group is given education about medical humanities when the other group is not given any intervention but the same room and time.The outcomes including empathy, depression, quality of life, burnout and self-efficiency are measured before, during and after the trial.
Interventions
OTHEREducation of medical humanities
The medical students in the intervention group would gain education about the medical humanities, but not the control group.
Sponsors
Sun Yat-sen University
Ming Kuang
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 25 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* 1 age 18 to 25 years * 2 junior students majoring in clinical medicine * 3 no mental diseases previously
Exclusion criteria
* Did not meet inclusion criteria
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Medical students' empathy | 3 months | we plan to use the scaleThe Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy to measure medical students' empathy |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Medical students' depression | 3 months | we plan to use the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 to measure medical students' depression |
| Medical students' burnout | 3 months | we plan to use the scaleMaslach Burnout Inventory to measure medical students' burnout |
| Quality of life of Medical students | 3 months | we plan to use the scaleMOS SF-8 Health Survey to measure medical students' quality of life |
| Medical students' self-efficiency | 3 months | we plan to use the General Self-Efficacy Scale to measure medical students' self-efficiency |
Outcome results
None listed