Assessing attitudes towards biostatistics education among medical students: adaptation and preliminary evaluation of the Chinese version survey of attitudes towards statistics (SATS-36)

• Published in: BMC medical education Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 634 - 13
• Main Authors: Li, Chen, Zhang, Yuhai, Qin, Weidong, Xia, Jielai, Shang, Lei, Wang, Ling
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central 06.06.2024; BMC
• Subjects: Adaptation; Adult; Attitude of Health Personnel; Attitudes; Biostatistics; China; Data Analysis; Education; Education, Medical, Undergraduate; Factor analysis; Female; Humans; Learning Processes; Male; Medical statistics; Medical students; Preventive medicine; Psychometrics; Quantitative psychology; Reproducibility of Results; SATS; Statistics education; Students, Medical - psychology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Teaching; Teaching Methods; Thinking Skills; Validation studies; Young Adult; China; Attitudes; Biostatistics; Factor analysis; SATS; Statistics education
• ISSN: 1472-6920; 1472-6920
• DOI: 10.1186/s12909-024-05548-2

Despite the numerous advantages of mastering biostatistics, medical students generally perceive biostatistics as a difficult and challenging subject and even experience anxiety during the courses. Evidence for the correlation between students' academic achievements and their attitudes, indicati...