The relationship between the sources of confidence in overcoming major public health events and the improvement of medical students' professional identity: mediation by medical students' attention to major public health events.-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The relationship between the sources of confidence in overcoming major public health events and the improvement of medical students' professional identity: mediation by medical students' attention to major public health events.

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Author:

Zhu Na¹,Zhang Zhiyuan²,Xie Jun³,Ou Yangli¹,Tan Jia⁴,Gao Hong⁵

Affiliation:

1. School of Nursing,University of South China

2. Emergency Department,The Second Affiliated Hospital,Hengyang Medical School,University of South China

3. Student Affairs Department,University of South China

4. Department of Neonatology,The First Affiliated Hospital,Hengyang Medical School,University of South China

5. Department of Nursing,The Second Affiliated Hospital,Hengyang Medical School,University of South China

Abstract

Abstract Background The prevalence of COVID-19 highlights the shortage of medical human resources, and improving medical students' professional identity is a key condition to improve this situation. The sources of confidence in overcoming major public health events and medical students' attention to major public health events were key factors affecting their professional identity, but no study has yet investigated the mediating role of medical students' attention to major public health events in the relationship between them. This study aims to investigate the relationship among these three in medical university students in Hunan Province. Methods This was a cross-sectional survey of 2,960 medical students’ questionnaires collected from three universities in Hunan Province. An intermediary model was established to evaluate the role of medical students' attention to major public health events in the sources of confidence in overcoming major public health events and the improvement of medical students' professional identity. Results The sources of confidence in overcoming major public health events, medical students' attention to national crisis events, the improvement of medical students' professional identity were positively associated with each other (β = 0.328 ~ 0.464, P < 0.001). The mediating effect accounted for 23.3% of the total effect and 30.4% of the direct effect. Medical students' attention to major public health events plays a partial mediating role in the relationship between the sources of confidence to overcome major public health events and the improvement of medical students' professional identity. Conclusions This study found that the sources of confidence in overcoming major public health events, medical students' attention to national crisis events have a signifcant predictive effect on the improvement of medical students' professional identity. Medical students' attention to major public health events mediated the relationship between the sources of confidence to overcome major public health events and the improvement of medical students' professional identity. The findings have emphasize the theoretical and practical significance of professional identity education for medical students.

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