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Value of psychological counseling for trainees exposed to the death of a patient in emergency and resuscitation departments

INTRODUCTION: Trainee emergency and resuscitation technicians are not prepared during their academic training to deal with their psychological reactions to the death of a patient, we wanted to describe their feelings and understand the aggravating factors and highlight the need for intervention. OBJ...

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Autores principales: Betbout, I., Amemou, B., Ben Haouala, A., Ben Arbia, Y., Khadhrawi, I., Zaafrane, F., Mhalla, A., Gaha, L.
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9568008/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1729
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author Betbout, I.
Amemou, B.
Ben Haouala, A.
Ben Arbia, Y.
Khadhrawi, I.
Zaafrane, F.
Mhalla, A.
Gaha, L.
author_facet Betbout, I.
Amemou, B.
Ben Haouala, A.
Ben Arbia, Y.
Khadhrawi, I.
Zaafrane, F.
Mhalla, A.
Gaha, L.
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description INTRODUCTION: Trainee emergency and resuscitation technicians are not prepared during their academic training to deal with their psychological reactions to the death of a patient, we wanted to describe their feelings and understand the aggravating factors and highlight the need for intervention. OBJECTIVES: Our study aims to describe the psychological reactions of traineesexposed to the death of a patient on the internship grounds and to demonstrate the usefulness of specific psychological counseling METHODS: It is a prospective interventional study carried out with 2nd and 3rd-year students of the emergency and resuscitation section, our collection was done using a self-administered questionnaire with a validated PDI scale before the training, and a satisfaction questionnaire with the same scale after the training. RESULTS: Our population isyoung, with an averageage of 20.05 years, and ispredominantlyfemale, with a sex ratio of 0.12. Eighty-seven percent of the population statedthatthey were not prepared to deal with their feelings about the death of a patient, and thiseventharmed the quality of care for 68% of the students. According to the scores of the PDI scale in pre-training 77.33% of the students are at risk of developing PTSD, this percentage decreases to 30.67% according to the same scale in post-training. CONCLUSIONS: it is important to take into consideration the suffering of traineesexposed to traumaticevents such as the death of patients and to prepare them psychologically to deal with these situations DISCLOSURE: No significant relationships.
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spelling pubmed-95680082022-10-17 Value of psychological counseling for trainees exposed to the death of a patient in emergency and resuscitation departments Betbout, I. Amemou, B. Ben Haouala, A. Ben Arbia, Y. Khadhrawi, I. Zaafrane, F. Mhalla, A. Gaha, L. Eur Psychiatry Abstract INTRODUCTION: Trainee emergency and resuscitation technicians are not prepared during their academic training to deal with their psychological reactions to the death of a patient, we wanted to describe their feelings and understand the aggravating factors and highlight the need for intervention. OBJECTIVES: Our study aims to describe the psychological reactions of traineesexposed to the death of a patient on the internship grounds and to demonstrate the usefulness of specific psychological counseling METHODS: It is a prospective interventional study carried out with 2nd and 3rd-year students of the emergency and resuscitation section, our collection was done using a self-administered questionnaire with a validated PDI scale before the training, and a satisfaction questionnaire with the same scale after the training. RESULTS: Our population isyoung, with an averageage of 20.05 years, and ispredominantlyfemale, with a sex ratio of 0.12. Eighty-seven percent of the population statedthatthey were not prepared to deal with their feelings about the death of a patient, and thiseventharmed the quality of care for 68% of the students. According to the scores of the PDI scale in pre-training 77.33% of the students are at risk of developing PTSD, this percentage decreases to 30.67% according to the same scale in post-training. CONCLUSIONS: it is important to take into consideration the suffering of traineesexposed to traumaticevents such as the death of patients and to prepare them psychologically to deal with these situations DISCLOSURE: No significant relationships. Cambridge University Press 2022-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9568008/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1729 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Betbout, I.
Amemou, B.
Ben Haouala, A.
Ben Arbia, Y.
Khadhrawi, I.
Zaafrane, F.
Mhalla, A.
Gaha, L.
Value of psychological counseling for trainees exposed to the death of a patient in emergency and resuscitation departments
title Value of psychological counseling for trainees exposed to the death of a patient in emergency and resuscitation departments
title_full Value of psychological counseling for trainees exposed to the death of a patient in emergency and resuscitation departments
title_fullStr Value of psychological counseling for trainees exposed to the death of a patient in emergency and resuscitation departments
title_full_unstemmed Value of psychological counseling for trainees exposed to the death of a patient in emergency and resuscitation departments
title_short Value of psychological counseling for trainees exposed to the death of a patient in emergency and resuscitation departments
title_sort value of psychological counseling for trainees exposed to the death of a patient in emergency and resuscitation departments
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9568008/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1729
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