The Affordable Care Act as a Critical Life Event: Developing a Measure of Medical Student Perceptions and Outcomes
110 Pages Posted: 6 Oct 2012
Date Written: October 5, 2010
Abstract
This research aims to understand medical students’ perceptions of the Healthcare Reform Law (HCRL) as a critical life event. A purposive sample of 171 medical students from years one through four at a Southeastern university responded to items regarding their demographics and the Healthcare Reform Thoughts Survey (HCRTS), based within the Critical Life Event (CLE) theoretical framework (Inglehart, 1991).
Using a cross-sectional, quantitative methodology, and MANOVA analysis, results suggested medical students’ ratings of the HCRTS subscales vary by year, Wilks’ λ=.362, p<.001. Students at different points in their medical education (year) are likely to perceive the HCRL differently.
Keywords: Educational Psychology, Health Care, Critical Life Events, Affordable Care Act, Obama, Medical
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