Individual items of ATP-30 questionnaire which showed significant improvement following psychiatry clinical posting (n=143)
| Questions | Response of students | Preclinical posting (% of students) | Postclinical posting (% of students) | P value |
| I would like to be a psychiatrist. | Agree | 27.97 | 49.65 | <0.001 |
| Neutral | 42.65 | 36.36 | ||
| Disagree | 29.37 | 13.99 | ||
| Psychiatry is a respected branch of medicine. | Agree | 69.23 | 86.71 | <0.001 |
| Neutral | 18.88 | 9.09 | ||
| Disagree | 11.89 | 4.16 | ||
| With the forms of therapy now available, most psychiatric patients improve. | Agree | 65.73 | 76.22 | 0.01 |
| Neutral | 24.48 | 11.18 | ||
| Disagree | 9.79 | 12.58 | ||
| There is very little that psychiatrists can do for their patients. | Agree | 10.50 | 26.57 | 0.016 |
| Neutral | 15.38 | 9.79 | ||
| Disagree | 74.12 | 63.63 | ||
| Psychiatry is so unscientific that even psychiatrists can’t agree as to what its basic applied sciences are. | Agree | 23.07 | 27.97 | 0.02 |
| Neutral | 33.56 | 19.58 | ||
| Disagree | 43.35 | 52.45 | ||
| In recent years psychiatric treatment has become quite effective. | Agree | 68.53 | 81.11 | 0.04 |
| Neutral | 16.78 | 9.09 | ||
| Disagree | 14.78 | 9.79 | ||
| Psychiatric patients are often more interesting to work with than other patients. | Agree | 57.34 | 72.72 | 0.005 |
| Neutral | 23.07 | 19.58 | ||
| Disagree | 19.58 | 7.69 | ||
| It is quite easy for me to accept the efficacy of psychotherapy. | Agree | 33.56 | 60.83 | <0.001 |
| Neutral | 39.86 | 26.57 | ||
| Disagree | 26.57 | 12.58 |
Data are represented as percentage of students who were divided into three groups based on their responses on ATP-30 scale—agree, neutral and disagree. The groups were compared using χ2 test, p<0.05 is considered to be statistically significant.
ATP-30, Attitude Towards Psychiatry 30-item scale.