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Impact of dementia education and training on health and social care staff knowledge, attitudes and confidence: a cross-sectional study

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to establish the impact of dementia education and training on the knowledge, attitudes and confidence of health and social care staff. The study also aimed to identify the most effective features (content and pedagogical) of dementia education and training. DESI...

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Autores principales: Parveen, Sahdia, Smith, Sarah Jane, Sass, Cara, Oyebode, Jan R, Capstick, Andrea, Dennison, Alison, Surr, Claire A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7817792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33468498
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039939
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author Parveen, Sahdia
Smith, Sarah Jane
Sass, Cara
Oyebode, Jan R
Capstick, Andrea
Dennison, Alison
Surr, Claire A
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Smith, Sarah Jane
Sass, Cara
Oyebode, Jan R
Capstick, Andrea
Dennison, Alison
Surr, Claire A
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description OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to establish the impact of dementia education and training on the knowledge, attitudes and confidence of health and social care staff. The study also aimed to identify the most effective features (content and pedagogical) of dementia education and training. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey study. Data collection occurred in 2017. SETTINGS: Health and social care staff in the UK including acute care, mental health community care trusts, primary care and care homes. PARTICIPANTS: All health and social care staff who had completed dementia education and training meeting the minimal standards as set by Health Education England, within the past 5 years were invited to participate in an online survey. A total of 668 health and social care staff provided informed consent and completed an online survey, and responses from 553 participants were included in this study. The majority of the respondents were of white British ethnicity (94.4%) and identified as women (88.4%). OUTCOMES: Knowledge, attitude and confidence of health and social care staff. RESULTS: Hierarchical multiple regression analysis was conducted. Staff characteristics, education and training content variables and pedagogical factors were found to account for 29% of variance in staff confidence (F=4.13, p<0.001), 22% of variance in attitude (knowledge) (F=3.80, p<001), 18% of the variance in staff knowledge (F=2.77, p<0.01) and 14% of variance in staff comfort (attitude) (F=2.11, p<0.01). CONCLUSION: The results suggest that dementia education and training has limited impact on health and social care staff learning outcomes. While training content variables were important when attempting to improve staff knowledge, more consideration should be given to pedagogical factors when training is aiming to improve staff attitude and confidence.
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spelling pubmed-78177922021-01-28 Impact of dementia education and training on health and social care staff knowledge, attitudes and confidence: a cross-sectional study Parveen, Sahdia Smith, Sarah Jane Sass, Cara Oyebode, Jan R Capstick, Andrea Dennison, Alison Surr, Claire A BMJ Open Medical Education and Training OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to establish the impact of dementia education and training on the knowledge, attitudes and confidence of health and social care staff. The study also aimed to identify the most effective features (content and pedagogical) of dementia education and training. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey study. Data collection occurred in 2017. SETTINGS: Health and social care staff in the UK including acute care, mental health community care trusts, primary care and care homes. PARTICIPANTS: All health and social care staff who had completed dementia education and training meeting the minimal standards as set by Health Education England, within the past 5 years were invited to participate in an online survey. A total of 668 health and social care staff provided informed consent and completed an online survey, and responses from 553 participants were included in this study. The majority of the respondents were of white British ethnicity (94.4%) and identified as women (88.4%). OUTCOMES: Knowledge, attitude and confidence of health and social care staff. RESULTS: Hierarchical multiple regression analysis was conducted. Staff characteristics, education and training content variables and pedagogical factors were found to account for 29% of variance in staff confidence (F=4.13, p<0.001), 22% of variance in attitude (knowledge) (F=3.80, p<001), 18% of the variance in staff knowledge (F=2.77, p<0.01) and 14% of variance in staff comfort (attitude) (F=2.11, p<0.01). CONCLUSION: The results suggest that dementia education and training has limited impact on health and social care staff learning outcomes. While training content variables were important when attempting to improve staff knowledge, more consideration should be given to pedagogical factors when training is aiming to improve staff attitude and confidence. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7817792/ /pubmed/33468498 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039939 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Oyebode, Jan R
Capstick, Andrea
Dennison, Alison
Surr, Claire A
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title Impact of dementia education and training on health and social care staff knowledge, attitudes and confidence: a cross-sectional study
title_full Impact of dementia education and training on health and social care staff knowledge, attitudes and confidence: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Impact of dementia education and training on health and social care staff knowledge, attitudes and confidence: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Impact of dementia education and training on health and social care staff knowledge, attitudes and confidence: a cross-sectional study
title_short Impact of dementia education and training on health and social care staff knowledge, attitudes and confidence: a cross-sectional study
title_sort impact of dementia education and training on health and social care staff knowledge, attitudes and confidence: a cross-sectional study
topic Medical Education and Training
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7817792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33468498
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039939
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