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Clinician Knowledge and Attitudes About Climate Change and Health After a Quality Incentive Program.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Climate change is a fundamental threat to human health, and industries, including health care, must assess their respective contribution to this crisis.

Objective

To assess the change in knowledge of clinicians who completed a quality incentive program (QIP) measure on climate change and health care sustainability and to examine clinician attitudes toward climate change and their perception of clinical and individual relevance.

Design, setting, and participants

The participants in this survey study included employed physicians and psychologists who were part of a hospital physician organization in an academic medical center (AMC) in Boston, Massachusetts. The hospital physician organization provides a QIP with different measures every 6 months and provides incentive payments on completion. The study is based on a survey of participants on completion of a QIP measure focused on climate change and health care sustainability offered from July 2023 through September 2023 at the AMC.

Exposure

Structured educational video modules.

Main outcomes and measures

After completion of the modules, the participants reported their baseline and postintervention knowledge on climate change impacts on health and health care sustainability, perceived relevance of the material, and attitudes toward the modules using 5-point Likert scales and free-text comments. Data were analyzed using univariate and multivariable analyses including participant age, gender, and practice specialty.

Results

Of the 2559 eligible clinicians, 2417 (94.5%) (mean [SD] age, 48.9 [11.5] years; range, 29-85 years; 1244 males [51.5%]) participated in the measure and completed the survey. Among these participants, 1767 (73.1%) thought the modules were relevant or very relevant to their lives and 1580 (65.4%) found the modules relevant or very relevant to their clinical practice. Age was not associated with responses. Practitioners in specialties classified as climate facing were more likely to think that the education was relevant to their clinical practice compared with those in non-climate-facing specialties (mean [SD] score, 3.76 [1.19] vs 3.61 [1.26]; P = .005). Practitioners identifying as female were also more likely to consider this education as relevant to their clinical practice compared with male practitioners (mean [SD] score, 3.82 [1.17] vs 3.56 [1.27]; P < .001).

Conclusions and relevance

In this survey study, a high proportion of clinicians expressed positive attitudes toward education in climate change and health and health care sustainability, with some demographic and specialty variability. These data support that climate and health education in AMCs provides information that practitioners see as relevant and important.

SUBMITTER: Armand W

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11310827 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Clinician Knowledge and Attitudes About Climate Change and Health After a Quality Incentive Program.

Armand Wynne W Padget Michael M Pinsky Elizabeth E Wasfy Jason H JH Slutzman Jonathan E JE Duhaime Ann-Christine AC

JAMA network open 20240801 8

<h4>Importance</h4>Climate change is a fundamental threat to human health, and industries, including health care, must assess their respective contribution to this crisis.<h4>Objective</h4>To assess the change in knowledge of clinicians who completed a quality incentive program (QIP) measure on climate change and health care sustainability and to examine clinician attitudes toward climate change and their perception of clinical and individual relevance.<h4>Design, setting, and participants</h4>T ...[more]

PMID: 39115843

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Dataset Information

Clinician Knowledge and Attitudes About Climate Change and Health After a Quality Incentive Program.

Importance

Objective

Design, setting, and participants

Exposure

Main outcomes and measures

Results

Conclusions and relevance

Publications

Clinician Knowledge and Attitudes About Climate Change and Health After a Quality Incentive Program.

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