Assessment of a medical student mentoring programme to improve attitudes related to grief and coping with death.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the impact of a mentoring programme for medical students doing a palliative care rotation, aimed at improving coping with death and attitudes towards the suffering produced by illness.

Methods

A quasi-experimental study without a control group was carried out on second-year medical students. Five 1-h group sessions were conducted. Attitudes towards grief and coping with death were assessed before the mentoring programme began and afterwards, using the Brief Humanizar Scale and the Bugen's Coping with Death Scale, respectively.

Results

In terms of the sense of grieving as measured by the Brief Humanizar Scale, the mean score for the 'Burden' factor was 7 points and for the 'Change' factor it was 28.6, indicating that suffering makes more sense as

SUBMITTER: Alvarez-Montero S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10616318 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature