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Assessing Medical Students’ Confidence towards Provision of Palliative Care: A Cross-Sectional Study
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 medica...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8345455/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34360364 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18158071 |
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author | Leung, Shih-Ya Wong, Eliza Lai-Yi |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-83454552021-08-07 Assessing Medical Students’ Confidence towards Provision of Palliative Care: A Cross-Sectional Study Leung, Shih-Ya Wong, Eliza Lai-Yi Int J Environ Res Public Health Article 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. MDPI 2021-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8345455/ /pubmed/34360364 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18158071 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Leung, Shih-Ya Wong, Eliza Lai-Yi Assessing Medical Students’ Confidence towards Provision of Palliative Care: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title | Assessing Medical Students’ Confidence towards Provision of Palliative Care: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full | Assessing Medical Students’ Confidence towards Provision of Palliative Care: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_fullStr | Assessing Medical Students’ Confidence towards Provision of Palliative Care: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing Medical Students’ Confidence towards Provision of Palliative Care: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_short | Assessing Medical Students’ Confidence towards Provision of Palliative Care: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_sort | assessing medical students’ confidence towards provision of palliative care: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8345455/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34360364 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18158071 |
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