Analyzing negative experiences reported by medical students
International Journal of Development Research
Analyzing negative experiences reported by medical students
Received 11th January, 2021; Received in revised form 26th January, 2021; Accepted 18th February, 2021; Published online 30th March, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Felício de Freitas Netto et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This study aims to analyze negative experiences (aggression, abuse, and mistreatment) reported by medical students during their course. It is a cross-sectional research with 218 participants. A questionnaire on aggression, abuse, and mistreatment wasused. The students also answered a questionnaire covering sociodemographic and economic data. Their average age was 23.3 years old (+3.5), and they were mostly white males. Among all students, the weighted prevalence by course year of at least one frequent occurrence (five times or more) of aggression, abuse or mistreatment was 40.8%. There was no significant difference as to the prevalence of aggression, abuse and mistreatment between male and female students, for all course years. Students were the most frequent perpetrators for the first year, and professors, from the second to the sixth year. Attention should be directed to aggression, abuse and mistreatment reported by medical students in medical schools.
