Paediatric patient perceptions of healthcare professionals: contributions to a communication curriculum.

ABSTRACT: Communication skills are a vital but often neglected part of paediatric training. To make communication training more responsive to patient needs, children and adolescents should be involved in developing the communication curriculum for healthcare professionals, though this is rarely the case. The present study explored children and adolescents' perceptions of healthcare professionals to identify recommendations for healthcare professionals to contribute to formulating goals, learning objectives, and competencies for an interprofessional paediatric communication curriculum. We used narrative and play-based interviews to include the perceptions of preschool children aged 3-6 years (n = 8) and an online questionnaire to explore those of schoolchildren and adolescents aged 5-18 years (n = 54

SUBMITTER: Thestrup J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11634935 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature