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NCT ID: NCT00281398 Completed - Clinical trials for Emergency Medical Services

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

Start date: August 2005
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

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.