Persons with Disabilities (PWD) as patient educators: Effects on medical student attitudes
| Autor: | Vivien Lee, Jeffrey Jiang, Anna Szücs, V Vien Lee, Low Si Hui, Faith Teo, Jose M Valderas, Victor Loh |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | The Asia Pacific Scholar, Vol 9, Iss 4, Pp 40-49 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2424-9335 2424-9270 |
| DOI: | 10.29060/TAPS.2024-9-4/SC3254 |
| Popis: | Introduction: Globally, persons with disabilities (PWD) face structural and social barriers to inclusive healthcare. Medical schools, as crucibles of medical professional identity formation, have the responsibility to foster person-centredness toward all patients, including PWD, among her graduates. We co-designed with PWD a “Communications with Persons with Disabilities” workshop and evaluated its impact. Methods: The workshop enlisted PWD as patient educators, occurred within the third-year undergraduate Family Medicine posting, and was designed to positively impact communications skills and attitudes toward PWD. Students (n=135) were surveyed pre- and post- workshop following a mixed-methods approach (demographic data, Attitude Towards Disabled Persons (ATDP)-O scale, feedback questions, and post-workshop free reflections). Descriptive analysis was used for demographic and feedback questions, and thematic analysis for reflections. Paired t-test was used to evaluate change in ATDP-O scores. Results: There were 69 survey respondents (51.11%). Most students agreed that communications training with PWD could be strengthened in medical school, and that the workshop was relevant to their future medical career (n=68, 98.55%). Attitudes towards PWD significantly improved after the workshop (ATDP-O change: +9.29 points (12.7%), p |
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