What Do Medical Students Do for Self-Care? A Student-Centered Approach to Well-Being
| Autor: | Dennis Nmecha, Aisha M. Omorodion, Erin E. Ayala, Hyacinth R. C. Mason, Jeffrey S. Winseman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Adult
Male Students Medical 020205 medical informatics media_common.quotation_subject education Student centered 02 engineering and technology Health Promotion Personal Satisfaction Education 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Promotion (rank) Nursing Surveys and Questionnaires 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine skin and connective tissue diseases Schools Medical media_common Medical education business.industry General Medicine Self Care Health promotion Mental Health Well-being Self care Female sense organs business |
| Zdroj: | Teaching and learning in medicine. 29(3) |
| ISSN: | 1532-8015 |
| Popis: | Phenomenon: Despite the promotion of medical student health and wellness through recent program and curricular changes, research continues to show that medical education is associated with decreased well-being in medical students. Although many institutions have sought to more effectively assess and improve self-care in medical students, no self-care initiatives have been designed using the explicit perspectives of students themselves.Using concept mapping methodology, the research team created a student-generated taxonomy of self-care behaviors taken from a national sample of medical students in response to a brainstorming prompt. The research team examined how students' conceptualizations of self-care may be organized into a framework suitable for use in programming and curricular change in medical education.Ten clusters of self-care activities were identified: nourishment, hygiene, intellectual and creative health, physical activity, spiritual care, balance and relaxation, time for loved ones, big picture goals, pleasure and outside activities, and hobbies. Using results of the two-dimensional scaling analysis, students' individual self-care behaviors were organized within two orthogonal dimensions of self-care activities. Insights: This concept map of student-identified self-care activities provides a starting point for better understanding and ultimately improving medical student self-care. Students' brainstormed responses fit within a framework of varying levels of social engagement and physical-psychological health that included a wide range of solitary, social, physical, and mental health behaviors. As students' preferred self-care practices did not often include programmatic activities, medical educators may benefit from consulting this map as they plan new approaches to student self-care and in counseling individual students searching for more effective ways to ease the burdens of medical school. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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