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Attitudes of Medical Trainees Towards Homeless Persons Presenting for Care in the Emergency Department

NCT00281398 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2013-06-20

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Summary

Homelessness is a significant problem in Canada, and many homeless people will seek routine care in the Emergency Department (ED) as a result of barriers to access. There is a paucity of information in the literature concerning the attitudes of health care workers towards homeless patients in the ED setting, although there is ample reason to believe that these attitudes may be suboptimal. In the absence of formal teaching regarding issues of homelessness, medical students have been shown to develop increasingly negative attitudes towards this vulnerable population. It is therefore important to better delineate the attitudes of ED physicians towards homeless persons and to develop an emergency medicine curriculum that helps sensitize physicians to the needs of this already disadvantaged population.

Conditions

  • Homeless Persons
  • Emergency Medical Services

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

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Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Physicians' Services Incorporated Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Unity Health Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Julia Spence, MD, FRCPC · Unity Health Toronto

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
25 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-08-31
Primary Completion
2007-12-31
Completion
2007-12-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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