The Debbie Project Survey Data

Our research hypothesis was that exposure to a volunteer learning opportunity working with children with disabilities would improve implicit and explicit biases among medical students towards persons with disabilities. The data includes demographic information about participants, scores on the Multidimensional Attitudes Scale Towards Persons with Disabilities (MAS), and scores on the Implicit Association Test (IAT) for persons with disabilities. Volunteers were asked to complete this survey one week prior to beginning their volunteering (t1), after 4 months at the end of the intervention (t2), and again 4 months later (t3). The comparison group was comprised of medical students who were not volunteering, and they filled out the survey at t1 and t2. All data was collected and stored by Project Implicit. This was gathered by having all participants fill out an online survey form. To use and interpret the data the files can be transferred to SPSS or similar software to run analyses examining demographics of participants, differences in baseline differences between groups, changes in the MAS and IAT scores at different time points, and differences as to how different groups answered specific MAS questions. The most notable finding was that there was a statistically significant improvement in MAS scores from t1 to t2 among volunteer participants.

本研究假说认为，参与与残疾儿童一起工作的志愿者学习机会，将有助于改善医学生对于残疾人士的隐性及显性偏见。数据集包含了关于参与者的人口统计学信息，多维态度量表（MAS）针对残疾人士的得分，以及针对残疾人士的隐性联想测试（IAT）得分。志愿者被要求在开始志愿服务前一周（t1）、干预措施结束后的四个月（t2）以及再之后的四个月（t3）完成此调查。对照组由未参与志愿服务的医学生组成，他们在t1和t2时填写了调查问卷。所有数据均由Project Implicit收集并存储。数据收集通过让所有参与者填写在线调查表完成。为了使用和解释数据，可以将文件传输至SPSS或类似软件中，以进行参与者的人口统计学分析、各组基线差异的比较、不同时间点MAS和IAT得分的改变，以及不同组别对特定MAS问题的回答差异分析。最显著的结果是，志愿者参与者在t1至t2期间MAS得分出现了统计学上显著的提升。