Individual items of ATP-30 and MICA questionnaire which showed positive attitude in students throughout psychiatry clinical posting (n=143)
| Questions | Average per cent of students who agreed throughout the term | Average per cent of students who disagreed throughout the term |
| ATP-30 scale questions | ||
| Psychiatry is unappealing because it makes little use of medical training. | 25.2 | 69.6 |
| Psychiatrists talk a lot but do very little. | 23.4 | 78.3 |
| Psychiatric hospitals are little more than prisons. | 25.9 | 65.9 |
| Psychiatrists seem to talk about nothing but sex. | 5.2 | 81.1 |
| Psychiatric teaching increases our understanding of medical and surgical patients. | 63.6 | 16.1 |
| The majority of students report that their psychiatric undergraduate training has been valuable. | 76.9 | 9.4 |
| Psychiatric illness deserves at least as much attention as physical illness. | 81.1 | 10.1 |
| Psychiatrists tend to be at least as stable as the average doctor. | 67.1 | 16.8 |
| It is interesting to try and unravel the cause of psychiatric illness. | 67.5 | 12.9 |
| Psychiatric hospitals have a specific contribution to make to the treatment of the mentally ill. | 74.8 | 12.9 |
| These days psychiatry is one of the most important parts of the curriculum in medical schools. | 61.5 | 13.9 |
| The practice of psychiatry allows the development of really rewarding relationships with people. | 77.3 | 11.9 |
| Psychiatry is so unstructured that it cannot really be taught effectively. | 17.5 | 55.6 |
| Psychiatrists get less satisfaction from their work than other specialists. | 16.1 | 59.5 |
| MICA scale questions | ||
| Health/social care staff know more about the lives of people treated for a mental illness than do family members or friends. | 75.8 | 24.2 |
| Being a health/social care professional in the area of mental health is not like being a real health/social care professional. | 28.7 | 71.3 |
| If a senior colleague instructed me to treat people with a mental illness in a disrespectful manner, I would not follow their instructions. | 74.5 | 25.5 |
| It is important that any health/social care professional supporting a person with a mental illness also ensures that their physical health is assessed. | 86.4 | 13.6 |
| I would use the terms ‘crazy’, ‘nutter’, ‘mad’, and so on, to describe to colleagues people with a mental illness who I have seen in my work. | 25.2 | 74.8 |
| If a colleague told me they had a mental illness, I would still want to work with them. | 80.4 | 19.6 |
| People with a severe mental illness can never recover enough to have a good quality of life. | 22.5 | 67.5 |
Data are represented as percentage of students who were divided into three groups based on their responses on ATP-30 and MICA scale.
ATP-30, Attitude Towards Psychiatry 30-item scale; MICA, Mental Illness Clinician’s Attitude scale.