Cultivating compassion in care: evaluating a compassion-training intervention and exploring barriers to compassionate care in postgraduate medical education in Pakistan: a mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Compassionate patient care is essential for improving patient outcomes and enhancing healthcare experience. However, in lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) like Pakistan, systemic barriers and a lack of structured curricula hinder its consistent delivery. This study evaluates a targeted compassion-training intervention for residents in a tertiary care hospital and explores barriers to its implementation. Given shared challenges like resource constraints, high patient loads, and gaps in formal training, these findings have broader implications for integrating structured compassion-based education across LMICs.

Methods

This quasi-experimental mixed-methods study was conducted with first-year residents over a one-year period (November 2023 - October 2024). A 4-hour

SUBMITTER: Malik MGR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11987440 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature