Nantika Thavichachart . Change of knowledge, attitude and practice of medical students after finishing the human behavior course. (). Chulalongkorn University. : , 2002.
Change of knowledge, attitude and practice of medical students after finishing the human behavior course
Abstract:
Objective : To evaluate the outcome of a course on "human behavior" in term of the improvement of knowledge, attitude and practice of enrolled medical students.Design: Observational descriptiveMethods: 119 subjects who are 3rd year medical students of Academic Year 2001, Chulalongkorn University, participated and completed KAP questionnaire which consisted of 3 domains: knowledge, attitude and practice. The questionnaire was performed two times as "pretest" (at the beginning of the course) and "post-test" (at the end of the course). The difference of KAP scores was analyzed by descriptive analysis and Wilcoxon signed-rank test.Results: The median and mean scores of knowledge, attitude and practice domains increased after the completion of the course. Wilcoxon signed-rank test is convinced of a significant improvement in all tested domains.Conclusion: The result presents that the students' learning is improved by measuring the knowledge, attitude and practice. There are many factors that might be contributed to the change. In our opinion, the two most important factors could be, namely: 1) the content of the course stimulates both idea and emotion, and 2) the educational process, means PBL approach which promotes idea construction and critial thinking small, group discussion among peers and facilitators helps to elaborate the knowledge, enhances subsequent retrieval, learns and internalizes attitude and ethics each other as well as learning materials that allow early exposure to clinical experiences.