caa a22 4500 477113664 CHVBK 20180405111616.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01323087 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01323087 Concepts of health and illness in entering medical students: First part of a prospective study [Elektronische Daten] [Martin Thommen, Reinhard Westkämper, Jürg Schaufelberger, Christoph Grichting] Gesundheits- und Krankheitskonzepte vor Studienanfängern im Fach Medizin Summary: The objective of this prospective study is to assess curriculum-related factors which might influence both concepts of health and illness and health behaviour. A representative sample of 546 freshmen enrolled at the University of Berne, entering medical students and a control group of freshmen in other faculties, were surveyed on their subjective concepts of illness and health. The questionnaire described as "Health and Illness Concept Scales” (HICS) was mailed out shortly before the beginning of school, and was returned by 70%. The prospective medical students surveyed were not found to have a typically medical view of health and illness before entering professional training, contrary to the hypothesis of "anticipatory socialisation”. Their general concept of illness and health was found to be distinctly naturalistic rather than psychosocial in nature. While psychosocial factors were considered to be rather irrelevant by both cohort of students, individual health behaviour and the ability to recognize warning signs of impending hazard to one's health were given high priority. Birkhäuser Verlag, 1996 Thommen Martin Department of Outpatient Psychiatry, University of Berne, School of Medicine, Berne, Switzerland aut Westkämper Reinhard Division of Education, Research and Evaluation, University of Berne, School of Medicine, Berne, Switzerland aut Schaufelberger Jürg Division of Education, Research and Evaluation, University of Berne, School of Medicine, Berne, Switzerland aut Grichting Christoph Division of Education, Research and Evaluation, University of Berne, School of Medicine, Berne, Switzerland aut Sozial- und Präventivmedizin Birkhäuser-Verlag 41/2(1996-03-01), 90-97 0303-8408 41:2<90 1996 41 38 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01323087 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01323087 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Thommen Martin Department of Outpatient Psychiatry, University of Berne, School of Medicine, Berne, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Westkämper Reinhard Division of Education, Research and Evaluation, University of Berne, School of Medicine, Berne, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schaufelberger Jürg Division of Education, Research and Evaluation, University of Berne, School of Medicine, Berne, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Grichting Christoph Division of Education, Research and Evaluation, University of Berne, School of Medicine, Berne, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Sozial- und Präventivmedizin Birkhäuser-Verlag 41/2(1996-03-01), 90-97 0303-8408 41:2<90 1996 41 38 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer