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Counteracting Abuse in Health Care: Evaluating a One-Year Drama Intervention with Staff in Sweden
In Northern European countries 13–28% of female patients seeking gynecological health care have reported abuse by health care staff (AHC). We conducted workshops with health care staff using the improvised role-play method Forum Play (FP), based on techniques developed by Boal. The study explores to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7459683/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32824182 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165931 |
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author | Zbikowski, Anke Brüggemann, A. Jelmer Wijma, Barbro Swahnberg, Katarina |
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description | In Northern European countries 13–28% of female patients seeking gynecological health care have reported abuse by health care staff (AHC). We conducted workshops with health care staff using the improvised role-play method Forum Play (FP), based on techniques developed by Boal. The study explores to what extent the intervention increased the staff’s awareness of AHC and their ability to take action against it. A total of 16 half-day FP workshops were conducted with staff from a Swedish women’s clinic over one year. Self-reported questionnaires were distributed to all staff before, during, and after the intervention. Primary outcome measures were the number of reported occasions of AHC and FP participants’ ability to act in AHC-situations. We found an increase in the participants’ self-reported ability to act in AHC-related situations. However, no change could be observed in the number of reported occasions of AHC between baseline and one year after the intervention. Health care staff’s participation in workshops using improvised role-play can increase staff’s perceived ability to take action in AHC situations. The voluntary nature of the intervention may have attracted those who were already aware of the topic, and likely explains the unchanged awareness of AHC. |
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spelling | pubmed-74596832020-09-02 Counteracting Abuse in Health Care: Evaluating a One-Year Drama Intervention with Staff in Sweden Zbikowski, Anke Brüggemann, A. Jelmer Wijma, Barbro Swahnberg, Katarina Int J Environ Res Public Health Article In Northern European countries 13–28% of female patients seeking gynecological health care have reported abuse by health care staff (AHC). We conducted workshops with health care staff using the improvised role-play method Forum Play (FP), based on techniques developed by Boal. The study explores to what extent the intervention increased the staff’s awareness of AHC and their ability to take action against it. A total of 16 half-day FP workshops were conducted with staff from a Swedish women’s clinic over one year. Self-reported questionnaires were distributed to all staff before, during, and after the intervention. Primary outcome measures were the number of reported occasions of AHC and FP participants’ ability to act in AHC-situations. We found an increase in the participants’ self-reported ability to act in AHC-related situations. However, no change could be observed in the number of reported occasions of AHC between baseline and one year after the intervention. Health care staff’s participation in workshops using improvised role-play can increase staff’s perceived ability to take action in AHC situations. The voluntary nature of the intervention may have attracted those who were already aware of the topic, and likely explains the unchanged awareness of AHC. MDPI 2020-08-15 2020-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7459683/ /pubmed/32824182 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165931 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zbikowski, Anke Brüggemann, A. Jelmer Wijma, Barbro Swahnberg, Katarina Counteracting Abuse in Health Care: Evaluating a One-Year Drama Intervention with Staff in Sweden |
title | Counteracting Abuse in Health Care: Evaluating a One-Year Drama Intervention with Staff in Sweden |
title_full | Counteracting Abuse in Health Care: Evaluating a One-Year Drama Intervention with Staff in Sweden |
title_fullStr | Counteracting Abuse in Health Care: Evaluating a One-Year Drama Intervention with Staff in Sweden |
title_full_unstemmed | Counteracting Abuse in Health Care: Evaluating a One-Year Drama Intervention with Staff in Sweden |
title_short | Counteracting Abuse in Health Care: Evaluating a One-Year Drama Intervention with Staff in Sweden |
title_sort | counteracting abuse in health care: evaluating a one-year drama intervention with staff in sweden |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7459683/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32824182 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165931 |
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