Development of an instrument to measure medical students' attitudes toward people with disabilities

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 251-260

  Symons, Andrew B ^a   Fish, Reva ^b   McGuigan, Denise ^c   Fox, Jeffery ^d   Akl, Elie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d CANISIUS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Disability; Instruments; Medical students; Professionalism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; STANDARD;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868644424     PISSN: 19349491     EISSN: 19349556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/1934-9556-50.3.251     Document Type: Article

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