Medical students and people with disabilities: A teaching unit tor medical students exploring the impact of disability on the individual and the family

Tracy, Jane; Graves, Philip

doi:10.3109/01421599609034145

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“…Results suggested that the students were more comfortable interacting with people with disabilities after the intervention, with 77% of students valuing the opportunity to meet people with disabilities during the intervention. However, as with Tracy and Graves (1996), these findings are difficult to interpret due to the measure's lack of specificity. Andrew, Siegel, Politch, and Coulter (1998) also used a generic measure of attitudes to those with disabilities in their evaluation of training, which included experiences with children with developmental disabilities.…”

Section: Research Suggesting Improved Attitudes: Generic Measuresmentioning

confidence: 88%

“…Studies that used measures of attitudes towards persons with disabilities in general also suggested that ID teaching/training enhanced medical students' attitudes (e.g., Tracy & Graves, 1996;Tracy & Iacono, 2008). However, such measurement is problematic as scales non-specific to ID may omit critical aspects of students' attitudes towards this clinical group.…”

Section: Research Suggesting Improved Attitudes: Generic Measuresmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…However, such measurement is problematic as scales non-specific to ID may omit critical aspects of students' attitudes towards this clinical group. Tracy and Graves (1996) examined whether an optional teaching unit on developmental disabilities influenced the attitudes of 25 Australian first-year medical students. At the beginning and end of the unit, students reported their thoughts and feelings towards people with disabilities and the patients' families.…”

Section: Research Suggesting Improved Attitudes: Generic Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Medical students’ attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities: A literature review

Ryan

Scior

2014

Research in Developmental Disabilities

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The present paper provides a review of research on medical students' attitudes to people with intellectual disabilities. The attitudes of medical students warrant empirical attention because their future work may determine people with intellectual disabilities' access to healthcare and exposure to health inequalities. An electronic search of Embase, Ovid MEDLINE(R), PsycINFO, Scopus, and Web of Science was completed to identify papers published up to August 2013. Twenty-four studies were identified, most of which evaluated the effects of pedagogical interventions on students' attitudes. Results suggested that medical students' attitudes to people with intellectual disabilities were responsive to interventions. However, the evidence is restricted due to research limitations, including poor measurement, self-selection bias, and the absence of control groups when evaluating interventions. Thus, there is a dearth of high-quality research on this topic, and past findings should be interpreted with caution. Future research directions are provided.

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Section: Research Suggesting Improved Attitudes: Generic Measuresmentioning

confidence: 88%

Section: Research Suggesting Improved Attitudes: Generic Measuresmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Research Suggesting Improved Attitudes: Generic Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Medical students’ attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities: A literature review

Ryan

Scior

2014

Research in Developmental Disabilities

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“…The knowledge gap of health practitioners within the field of disability has been recognised by those teaching in universities and attempted to be addressed with the development of innovative models of interprofessional curriculum. For example, guest "tutors" with disability (Tracy & Graves, 1996), "real-life" DVD scenarios (Iacono et al, 2011), and semester-long integrated programs of content (Morgan & Lo, 2013) have been trialled in a range of health professional training programs. However, targeted employment opportunities with structured mentoring and skill development within the disability sector remain limited, resulting in some generic health practitioners providing services for adults with CP (Bent et al, 2002;Ng et al, 2003;Nieuwenhuijsen et al, 2008).…”

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Health service experiences to address mobility decline in ambulant adults ageing with cerebral palsy

Morgan

Pogrebnoy

McDonald

2014

Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability

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Background Adults ageing with a disability need lifelong access to health services to meet their changing needs. This study aimed to explore in depth the experience and impact of health service access to address mobility change in adults ageing with cerebral palsy (CP). Method Semistructured interviews were conducted. Qualitative analysis and identification of themes were undertaken on resultant transcripts. Results Six community-living adults (35-52 years) with CP, at levels II and III of the Gross Motor Function Classification System -Extended & Revised (GMFCS-E&R), participated. All described adult-onset mobility decline and had experienced recent falls. Emergent themes explored the accessibility, nature, and type of health service available, comparisons to paediatric experience, and themes related to frustration, perceived control, and self-advocacy. Conclusion Adults with CP report variability in the access to and matching of health service provided with self-perceptions of service type and need to address mobility decline. Adults with CP describe frustration regarding their experiences and may seek opportunities to increase self-advocacy regarding available health and support services.

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“…Also available are studies on the attitudes of medical students towards persons with intellectual disabilities [11–14]. Research on attitudes towards the sexuality of persons with intellectual disabilities, including students of obstetrics as participants [15], nurses employed as caring staff at institutions for disabled persons [16], personnel who work with intellectually disabled persons within the scope of their professional competences (nurses, physiotherapists, general practitioners) of various forms [17–19], addressed several issues within the broadly understood area of sexuality of persons with intellectual disabilities.…”

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Model of Intellectual Disability and the Relationship of Attitudes Towards the Sexuality of Persons with an Intellectual Disability

Parchomiuk

2012

Sex Disabil

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The following article discusses the relationship between the model of intellectual disability and the attitudes towards sexuality of people with disabilities. This correlation has been verified during the author’s own research conducted on students of several medical faculties such as nursing, public health, emergency medical services and physiotherapy. Tools of the author’s design have been used in the research. Likert-type scale “Perspective of intellectual disability” has been used to determine the model of disability seen from the medical (individual) or social perspective. To examine the attitudes towards sexuality two tools of the author’s own design have been used: a Likert-type scale “The essence of sexuality in persons with an intellectual disability” which has been used to analyze the cognitive aspect of the attitudes, and a semantic differential with notions concerning physical and psychosocial aspects of sexuality including the affective-evaluative aspect. As expected, significant correlations have been found between the model and the attitudes both in the cognitive and the affective-evaluative aspect. Higher scores for the individual model correlated with: (a) lover scores for most aspects of sexuality of people with intellectual disability, (b) perceiving them as asexual, (c) biological determinism in the sexual sphere. The social model concurred with positive values given to sexuality of people with intellectual disability and its normalization in the sphere of its determinants and symptoms.

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Medical students and people with disabilities: A teaching unit tor medical students exploring the impact of disability on the individual and the family

Cited by 18 publications

References 4 publications

Medical students’ attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities: A literature review

Medical students’ attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities: A literature review

Health service experiences to address mobility decline in ambulant adults ageing with cerebral palsy

Model of Intellectual Disability and the Relationship of Attitudes Towards the Sexuality of Persons with an Intellectual Disability

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