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Revista Colombiana de Bioética 2024; 19 (2)

Bioethical attitudes in the clinical practice of undergraduate and graduate students in veterinary teaching hospitals in Mexico

Maldonado-Reséndiz RI, Ducoing WAM, Vanda CB

Language: Spanish
References: 50
Page: 1-22
PDF size: 227.49 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Purpose/Context. Veterinary medicine has neglected ethics in the treatment of patients, in addition to the fact that the veterinarian is constantly facing situations that represent bioethical conflicts with animals. Therefore, it is important to know the bioethical attitudes of future veterinarians with their patients and how training in bioethics influences these attitudes.
Methodology/Approach. A prospective, quantitative, cross-sectional, observational and comparative study was carried out to analyze the difference in bioethical knowledge, empathy towards animals and attitude towards patient’s interests in Veterinary Medicine students from five universities in Mexico. Variables such as gender, academic level, university of graduation and hospital of rotation were explored. A validated questionnaire with Likert-type items was used and the data were analyzed by analysis of variance and Pearson correlations.
Results/Findings. We analyzed 287 questionnaires from undergraduate and graduate students, finding that having taken bioethics courses made a difference in the level of knowledge, and that women performed better in the evaluation of concepts and empathy towards animals and patients.
Discussion/Conclusions/Contributions. The present study highlights the need for further research in clinical bioethics education, revision of contents and teaching methods, and the importance of various factors that affect empathy towards animals and consideration of their interests. There are no studies investigating the level of theoretical knowledge in bioethics among veterinary medicine students, and it is also the first report of the calculation of Cohen’s d in variables other than gender to measure the level of intensity of the difference between groups.


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