| Autor: |
Linda J Ross, Paul A Jennings, Cameron McR Gosling, Brett Williams |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2018 |
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| Zdroj: |
BMC Medical Education, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1472-6920 |
| DOI: |
10.1186/s12909-018-1341-9 |
| Popis: |
Abstract Background Paramedics are required to provide care to an aging population with multidimensional and complex issues. As such educators need to prepare undergraduate paramedics to recognise, assess and manage a broad range of psychosocial care and support issues beyond somatic conditions. Experiential educational interventions with older people provide realistic and contextualised experience which can improve the provision of holistic patient focused care. Methods This was a single institution controlled before-after study with parallel groups, conducted in Australia in 2017. It was designed to compare the effectiveness of an educational program related to older people (intervention), verses no intervention (control) on paramedic student attitudes, knowledge and behavior with older patients. Results A total of 124 second year paramedic students were included in this study; 60 in the intervention and 64 in the control group. Their demographics and Time 1 baseline results were homogeneous. Both groups showed improvement in communication skills with real older patients (p |
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