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When Contact Is Not Enough: Affecting First Year Medical Students’ Image towards Older Persons

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  • Sasmita Kusumastuti
  • Esther van Fenema
  • Eugenie C F Polman-van Stratum
  • Wilco Achterberg
  • Jolanda Lindenberg
  • Rudi G J Westendorp

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Context: Many medical schools have initiated care internships to familiarize their students with older persons and to instil a professional attitude. Objective: To examine the impact of care internships on the image that first-year medical students have of older persons and to explore the underlying concepts that may play a role in shaping this image. Design: Survey before and after a two-week compulsory care internship using the Aging Semantic Differential (ASD; 32 adjectives) and the Attitudes toward Old People (AOP; 34 positions) questionnaires. Participants: Before and after a care internship involving interpersonal contact, 252 and 244 first-year medical students at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) in the academic year 2012–2013 participated. Method: Descriptive statistics, analyses of variance, and principal component analysis were used; clusters of adjectives and positions were reduced into concepts to examine dominant patterns of views. Changes in image were investigated as mean differences of the total and concept scores. Results: Both the ASD and the AOP questionnaires showed a poor general image of older persons that significantly worsened after the care internship (p

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  • Sasmita Kusumastuti & Esther van Fenema & Eugenie C F Polman-van Stratum & Wilco Achterberg & Jolanda Lindenberg & Rudi G J Westendorp, 2017. "When Contact Is Not Enough: Affecting First Year Medical Students’ Image towards Older Persons," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(1), pages 1-15, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0169977
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169977
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