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Students’ Confidence and Interest in Palliative and Bereavement Care: A European Study

As part of a European Erasmus Plus project entitled Death Education for Palliative Psychology, this study assessed the ways in which Master’s Degree students in psychology and the creative arts therapies self-rated their confidence and interest in death education and palliative and bereavement care....

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Autores principales: Orkibi, Hod, Biancalani, Gianmarco, Bucuţã, Mihaela Dana, Sassu, Raluca, Wieser, Michael Alexander, Franchini, Luca, Raccichini, Melania, Azoulay, Bracha, Ciepliñski, Krzysztof Mariusz, Leitner, Alexandra, Varani, Silvia, Testoni, Ines
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930718/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33679532
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.616526
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author Orkibi, Hod
Biancalani, Gianmarco
Bucuţã, Mihaela Dana
Sassu, Raluca
Wieser, Michael Alexander
Franchini, Luca
Raccichini, Melania
Azoulay, Bracha
Ciepliñski, Krzysztof Mariusz
Leitner, Alexandra
Varani, Silvia
Testoni, Ines
author_facet Orkibi, Hod
Biancalani, Gianmarco
Bucuţã, Mihaela Dana
Sassu, Raluca
Wieser, Michael Alexander
Franchini, Luca
Raccichini, Melania
Azoulay, Bracha
Ciepliñski, Krzysztof Mariusz
Leitner, Alexandra
Varani, Silvia
Testoni, Ines
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description As part of a European Erasmus Plus project entitled Death Education for Palliative Psychology, this study assessed the ways in which Master’s Degree students in psychology and the creative arts therapies self-rated their confidence and interest in death education and palliative and bereavement care. In five countries (Austria, Israel, Italy, Poland, Romania), 344 students completed an online questionnaire, and 37 students were interviewed to better understand their views, interest, and confidence. The results revealed some significant differences between countries, and showed that older respondents with previous experience as formal caregivers for end-of-life clients showed greater interest in obtaining practical clinical competence in these fields. A mediation analysis indicated that students’ previous care experiences and past loss experiences were related to students’ current interest in death education and palliative and bereavement care through the mediation of their sense of confidence in this field. The qualitative findings identified five shared themes: life and death, learning about death, the psychological burden, personal experience and robust training, and four key training needs. Overall, students’ interest in studying and working with terminal illness and death are rooted in internal resources, a preliminary sense of confidence, but also external requirements.
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spelling pubmed-79307182021-03-05 Students’ Confidence and Interest in Palliative and Bereavement Care: A European Study Orkibi, Hod Biancalani, Gianmarco Bucuţã, Mihaela Dana Sassu, Raluca Wieser, Michael Alexander Franchini, Luca Raccichini, Melania Azoulay, Bracha Ciepliñski, Krzysztof Mariusz Leitner, Alexandra Varani, Silvia Testoni, Ines Front Psychol Psychology As part of a European Erasmus Plus project entitled Death Education for Palliative Psychology, this study assessed the ways in which Master’s Degree students in psychology and the creative arts therapies self-rated their confidence and interest in death education and palliative and bereavement care. In five countries (Austria, Israel, Italy, Poland, Romania), 344 students completed an online questionnaire, and 37 students were interviewed to better understand their views, interest, and confidence. The results revealed some significant differences between countries, and showed that older respondents with previous experience as formal caregivers for end-of-life clients showed greater interest in obtaining practical clinical competence in these fields. A mediation analysis indicated that students’ previous care experiences and past loss experiences were related to students’ current interest in death education and palliative and bereavement care through the mediation of their sense of confidence in this field. The qualitative findings identified five shared themes: life and death, learning about death, the psychological burden, personal experience and robust training, and four key training needs. Overall, students’ interest in studying and working with terminal illness and death are rooted in internal resources, a preliminary sense of confidence, but also external requirements. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7930718/ /pubmed/33679532 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.616526 Text en Copyright © 2021 Orkibi, Biancalani, Bucuţã, Sassu, Wieser, Franchini, Raccichini, Azoulay, Ciepliñski, Leitner, Varani and Testoni. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychology
Orkibi, Hod
Biancalani, Gianmarco
Bucuţã, Mihaela Dana
Sassu, Raluca
Wieser, Michael Alexander
Franchini, Luca
Raccichini, Melania
Azoulay, Bracha
Ciepliñski, Krzysztof Mariusz
Leitner, Alexandra
Varani, Silvia
Testoni, Ines
Students’ Confidence and Interest in Palliative and Bereavement Care: A European Study
title Students’ Confidence and Interest in Palliative and Bereavement Care: A European Study
title_full Students’ Confidence and Interest in Palliative and Bereavement Care: A European Study
title_fullStr Students’ Confidence and Interest in Palliative and Bereavement Care: A European Study
title_full_unstemmed Students’ Confidence and Interest in Palliative and Bereavement Care: A European Study
title_short Students’ Confidence and Interest in Palliative and Bereavement Care: A European Study
title_sort students’ confidence and interest in palliative and bereavement care: a european study
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930718/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33679532
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.616526
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