Students or medical professionals: whose knowledge improved after social-medicine training?
- Purpose
Rehabilitation professionals are faced with judging and describing the social-medicine status of their patients. Rehabilitation professionals must know the core concepts of acute unfitness for work, psychological capacities, and long-term work capacity.
Acquiring and applying this knowledge, requires training. The research question is if and to what extent medical professionals and students' knowledge changes after social medicine training.
Methods
This quasi-experimental study was carried out in the real-life context of social medicine training. Psychology students (n = 42), physicians/psychotherapists (i.e. state-licensed health professionals) (n = 44) and medical assistant professionals (n = 29) were trained. Their social medicine knowledge was measured before and after training by a 10-min expert-approved and content valid knowledge questionnaire.
Three free-text questions had to be answered on the essential aspects of present and prognostic work ability and psychological capacities.
Answers were rated forPurpose
Rehabilitation professionals are faced with judging and describing the social-medicine status of their patients. Rehabilitation professionals must know the core concepts of acute unfitness for work, psychological capacities, and long-term work capacity.
Acquiring and applying this knowledge, requires training. The research question is if and to what extent medical professionals and students' knowledge changes after social medicine training.
Methods
This quasi-experimental study was carried out in the real-life context of social medicine training. Psychology students (n = 42), physicians/psychotherapists (i.e. state-licensed health professionals) (n = 44) and medical assistant professionals (n = 29) were trained. Their social medicine knowledge was measured before and after training by a 10-min expert-approved and content valid knowledge questionnaire.
Three free-text questions had to be answered on the essential aspects of present and prognostic work ability and psychological capacities.
Answers were rated for correctness by two experts. Paired t tests and variance analysis have been calculated for group comparisons.
Results
All groups improved their social medicine knowledge from the pre- to the post-test. The students started with the lowest level of knowledge in the pre-test.
After training, 69% of the physicians/psychotherapists and 56.8% of the medical assistant professionals, but only 7% of the students, obtained maximum scores for naming psychological capacities.
Conclusions
Social medicine knowledge increased after a training course consisting of eight lessons. The increase was greater for medical assistant professionals and physicians/psychotherapists than for students. Social medicine training must be adjusted to the trainee groups' knowledge levels.…
Author details: | Beate MuschallaORCiD, Stefanie Baron, Theresa Klevers |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-021-02197-4 |
ISSN: | 0933-7954 |
ISSN: | 1433-9285 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34988614 |
Title of parent work (English): | Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology |
Subtitle (English): | results from a quasi-experimental evaluation study |
Publisher: | Springer |
Place of publishing: | Heidelberg |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2022/01/05 |
Publication year: | 2022 |
Release date: | 2024/08/12 |
Tag: | ICF; impairment; mental health; rehabilitation professionals; work ability |
Volume: | 57 |
Issue: | 7 |
Number of pages: | 10 |
First page: | 1505 |
Last Page: | 1514 |
Funding institution: | Projekt DEAL |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
License (German): | ![]() |