Individual items of MICA 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 just learn about mental health when I have to, and would not bother reading additional material on it. | Agree | 53.85 | 66.43 | 0.02 |
| Disagree | 46.15 | 33.57 | ||
| Working in the mental health field is just as respectable as other fields of health and social care. | Agree | 81.12 | 89.51 | 0.04 |
| Disagree | 18.88 | 10.49 | ||
| If I had a mental illness, I would never admit this to my friends because I would fear being treated differently. | Agree | 49.65 | 34.97 | 0.01 |
| Disagree | 50.39 | 65.03 | ||
| I feel as comfortable talking to a person with a mental illness as I do talking to a person with a physical illness. | Agree | 67.14 | 79.72 | 0.01 |
| Disagree | 32.86 | 20.28 |
Data are represented as percentage of students who were divided into two groups based on their responses on MICA scale—agree and disagree. The groups were compared using χ2 test, p<0.05 is considered to be statistically significant.
MICA, Mental Illness Clinician’s Attitude scale.