2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study of verification and utilization on scale measuring attitudes toward rural practice scale
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15K04236
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Education
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| Research Institution | Ehime University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 地域指向性尺度 / 地域医療 / 実習 / 医学生 / 教育 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Using factor analysis, we identified 4 factors consisting of 15 items. The factors extracted were Factor 1: Work preferences, Factor 2: Evaluation of rural practice, Factor 3: Rural living, Factor 4: Personal character. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the questionnaire was 0.849, acceptable for newly developed scales. The scree plot indicated for factors, explaining 46.8% of the total variance. The average score was 43 ± 6 in women and 44 ± 6 in men. Rural self-efficacy score was significantly increased with stronger intent for rural practice in both genders. Total factors, Factor 1: Work preferences, Factor 2: Evaluation of rural practice, and Factor 3: Rural living of rural self-efficacy showed a significant and independently positive correlation with the intent for rural practice.The present study suggests that medical schools might recruit students with characters showing their intent for rural practice in order to provide physicians to rural areas.
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| Free Research Field |
Community Medicine
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