Assessing Medical Students’ Confidence towards Provision of Palliative Care
A Cross-Sectional Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15468940 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shih-Ya Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Eliza Lai‐yi Wong (0000-0001-9983-6219, Chinese University of Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 15 |
| Pages | 8071-8071 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph18158071 |
| PMID | 34360364 |
| OpenAlex | W3184196226 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 31 |
Under a surging demand for palliative care, medical students generally still show a lack of confidence in the provision in abroad studies. This cross-sectional study aims to investigate the confidence and its association with knowledge, attitude and exposure on providing palliative care among medical undergraduates with a self-administered questionnaire to improve the international phenomenon. Full-time local medical undergraduates were recruited to obtain information regarding the demographics, confidence, knowledge, attitude and exposure on palliative care; the information was collected from July 2020 to October 2020. Questions on confidence (10-items), knowledge (20-items), attitude (10-items) and exposure were referenced from validated indexes and designed from literature review. Confidence level was categorized into "Confident" and "Non-confident" as suggested by studies to facilitate data analysis and comparison. Of the 303 participants, 59.4% were "Non-confident" (95% C.I.: 53.8% to 65.0%) in providing palliative care on average. Among medical students, knowledge ( p = 0.010) and attitude ( p = 0.003) are significantly positively associated with the confidence to provide palliative care, while exposure to death of family/friends ( p = 0.024) is negatively associated. This study begins an investigation on the research area in Hong Kong primarily. The confidence of local medical students should be enhanced to provide palliative care in their future. It thus highlights the importance of the medical curriculum and provides insights to remove barriers responsively to improve the overall confidence and the quality of palliative care
Confidence interval · Cross-sectional study · Curriculum · Demographics · Family medicine · Low Confidence · Palliative care · Demography · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Patient Dignity and Privacy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Internal Medicine
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |