Effects of an empathy enhancement program using patient stories on attitudes and stigma toward mental illness among nursing students

Autor: Mi-Kyoung Cho, Mi Young Kim
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Psychiatry, Vol 14 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1664-0640
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1304947
Popis: ObjectiveThis study aims to explore the impact of an empathy intervention through patients’ stories and investigate its impact on attitudes and stigma toward mental illness among nursing students prone to hold prejudices against this condition.MethodsUsing a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design, this study focused on nursing students and examined the effects of an empathy enhancement program targeting individuals with mental illnesses on communication, social distance, and prejudice. Ninety third-year nursing students from S and C cities and H and C universities enrolled in psychiatric nursing courses participated in the study. The intervention lasted 4 weeks and used the patient’s story to facilitate a participatory approach to understanding the patient’s life and encouraging mutual growth and expansion of consciousness in the therapeutic relationship. Age was treated as a covariate and analyzed using a two-way repeated-measure analysis of covariance.ResultsThe Empathy Enhancement Program Using Patient Stories (EEP-PS) group and the clinical practicum group showed no significant differences in communication, social distance, and empathy scores between the two groups or across different time points. However, variations were observed when examining specific subdomains within each group and across time points. Informative communication (F = 10.34, p = 0.002) and affiliative communication (F = 21.60, p
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