Feasibility and acceptability of an online intervention to enhance hopefulness among oncology professionals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients prefer medical communication including both hopefulness and realism, though health-care professional (HCPs) struggle to balance these. Providers could thus benefit from a detailed personal understanding of hope, allowing them to model and convey it to patients. Additionally, given that hope is associated with lower levels of burnout, HCPs may benefit from tools designed to enhance their own personal hopefulness. Several investigators have proposed offering HCPs interventions to augment hope. We developed an online workshop for this purpose.

Methods

Feasibility and acceptability of the workshop were assessed in members of the SWOG Cancer Research Network. Three measures were used: the Was-It-Worth-It scale, a survey based on the Kirkpatrick Training Evalua

SUBMITTER: Corn BW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10208111 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature