Recommendations for the quantitative basic evaluation of mind-body medicine courses for university students - results of a consensus-based, systematic decision-making process by experts.

Autor: Adam D; Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany. daniela.adam@charite.de., Vogelsänger P; Institute for General Medicine, University Hospital, Otto-Von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany., Brinkhaus B; Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany., Stöckigt B; Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC medical education [BMC Med Educ] 2024 Nov 27; Vol. 24 (1), pp. 1382. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 27.
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-024-06387-x
Abstrakt: Background: There is an increasing range of mind-body medicine (MBM) courses in Germany to support university students in dealing with stress. The evaluation of these varies and often only has a small number of participants due to the limited group size of the courses. The aim of this project was the development of a quantitative basic evaluation that can be used across all sites that conduct MBM courses.
Methods: In a consensus-based and systematic decision-making process, the learning objectives and various questionnaires for the evaluation of MBM courses were discussed and evaluated by experts according to defined criteria. The process was iterative, in which the reflection and definition of the learning objectives and the questionnaires were conditional and adapted if necessary. The recommendations for the basic evaluation of students' MBM courses were developed by consensus among the experts.
Results: For the experts, the most important learning objectives of the MBM courses were stress reduction and self-experience with the exercises. A total of 21 questionnaires were evaluated from nine topics: mindfulness, empathy, self-reflection, self-efficacy, resilience, stress, sense of coherence, quality of life, and well-being. Finally, eight questionnaires were recommended by the expert group for use in a basic evaluation: stress (PSS-10), quality of life (WHOQOL-Bref), mindfulness (MAAS), self-efficacy (GSE), self-compassion (SCS), empathy (SPF), self-reflection (GRAS) and sense of coherence (SOC-13). Further questionnaires were recommended as "optional". An additional qualitative evaluation is recommended for a broader and deeper understanding of the quantitative results.
Conclusions: The proposed basic evaluation is the central result of the iterative consensus-based decision-making process, which reflects the learning objectives of the underlying MBM courses. We hope that the basic evaluation will be integrated into other MBM courses so that results of various courses can be pooled and compared across sites in the future. This could increase the informative value of the evaluations. Furthermore, researchers could consider the use of the basic evaluation in clinically controlled trials on MBM.
Trial Registration: The project was not registered in a clinical trial registry because no results from health care interventions on human participants have been analyzed or reported.
Competing Interests: Declarations. Ethics approval and consent to participate: The members of the expert panel are the authors of this article. All the experts worked voluntarily in this project. No ethics approval or written informed consent was required as our institutional review board, the “Ethikkommission der Medizinischen Fakultät Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin”, does not advise any research which does not include human beings or human material, nor personal data. Consent for publication: Not applicable. Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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