Exploring Students' Compassion Outcomes within a Dental School's Tobacco Treatment Training Program: A pilot study.
Purpose It has been suggested that compassion may decrease as students progress through their health care education and into clinical practice. The purpose of this pilot study was to determine whether an immersive curriculum thread of tobacco use disorder (TUD) cessation methodology, including behav...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Dental Hygiene Vol. 98; no. 1; pp. 58 - 68 |
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American Dental Hygienists Association
Feb2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=175661154&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 175661154 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 1043254X 0CM jtl: Journal of Dental Hygiene issn: 1043254X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2024 vid: 98 iid: 1 pid: 1936 pub: American Dental Hygienists Association place: Chicago, Illinois artinfo: ui: 175661154 175661154 175661154 175661154 ppf: 58 ppct: 10 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Exploring Students' Compassion Outcomes within a Dental School's Tobacco Treatment Training Program: A pilot study. aug: au: Wiener, R. Constance Gaydos, Suann affil: MA, DMD, PhD Department of Dental Public Health and Professional Practice School of Dentistry West Virginia University Morgantown, WV, USA sug: subj: Schools, Dental Compassion Students, Dental Psychosocial Factors Curriculum Substance Use Disorders Education Substance Use Disorders Therapy Outcomes of Education Communication Skills Behavior Therapy Dental Hygiene Education, Dental Human Male Female Pilot Studies Surveys Comparative Studies T-Tests Cross Sectional Studies Summated Rating Scaling Data Analysis Software Descriptive Statistics Self Report Questionnaires Male Female ab: Purpose It has been suggested that compassion may decrease as students progress through their health care education and into clinical practice. The purpose of this pilot study was to determine whether an immersive curriculum thread of tobacco use disorder (TUD) cessation methodology, including behavioral techniques and communication skills, was associated with any change in dental hygiene and dental students perceived levels of compassion. Methods Dental hygiene (DH) and dental (DS) students (n=300) who had experienced an immersive TUD curriculum from West Virginia University were invited to complete the Sussex-Oxford Compassion Scale-Toward Others (SOC-O) online survey during the academic years 2022-2023. Possible scores on the SOC-O ranged from 20 (no or low compassion) to 100 (high compassion). The SOC-O scores for students who did not have clinical experience and limited TUD content (first-and second-year DH and DS students) were compared with SOC-O scores of students who had clinically applied the immersive tobacco cessation curriculum thread (third and fourth year DH and DS students) using t-tests. Results A total of seventy DH and DS students completed the SOC-O survey for a response rate of 23.3%. The overall mean SOC-O score was 83.0 for participants who lacked clinical experience (DH1, DH2, DS1, DS2) and 85.8 for participants with clinical experience using the TUD content (DH3, DH4, DS3, DS4) (p >0.05). For the SOC-O subscale analysis, both groups were similar in the recognition of suffering, universality of suffering, empathy/compassion for a person suffering, tolerance of uncomfortable feelings, and action/motivation to act to alleviate suffering. Conclusion A high level of perceived compassion among dental hygiene and dental students was associated with an immersive behavioral sciences curriculum thread for the assessment/treatment of TUD. Perceived levels of compassion were maintained for participants with and without clinical experience. Additional focus on compassion philosophy research within educational methodology is needed to maintain and improve compassion outcomes in the health care professions. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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