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## Background The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of a psychiatric label attached to an apparently normal person on the attitude of final year medical students at a Nigerian university. ## Methods A questionnaire with sections on demographic information, a single-paragraph case description illustrating a normal person, a social distance scale and questions on expected burden was used to elicit responses from 144 final year medical students who have had previous exposure to psychiatric posting. The students consisted of two randomly assigned groups; group A received a case description with a psychiatric label attached while group B received the same case description but without a psychiatric label. ## Results A total of 68 (47.2%) of the students responded to the questionnaire with the attached psychiatric label, while 76 (52.8%) responded to the questionnaire without the attached label. There was no statistical difference in age (p = 0.187) and sex (p = 0.933) between the two groups of students. The students who responded to the questionnaire with the attached psychiatric label would not rent out their houses (p = 0.003), were unwilling to have as their next-door neighb

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Author

Olawale O Ogunsemi; Olatunde Odusan; Michael O Olatawura

Publisher

BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); [London]: BioMed Central, 2005-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1744-859X)

Published

2008

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)