TY - JOUR
T1 - Students’ Confidence and Interest in Palliative and Bereavement Care
T2 - A European Study
AU - Orkibi, Hod
AU - Biancalani, Gianmarco
AU - Bucuţã, Mihaela Dana
AU - Sassu, Raluca
AU - Wieser, Michael Alexander
AU - Franchini, Luca
AU - Raccichini, Melania
AU - Azoulay, Bracha
AU - Ciepliñski, Krzysztof Mariusz
AU - Leitner, Alexandra
AU - Varani, Silvia
AU - Testoni, Ines
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright © 2021 Orkibi, Biancalani, Bucuţã, Sassu, Wieser, Franchini, Raccichini, Azoulay, Ciepliñski, Leitner, Varani and Testoni.
PY - 2021/2/18
Y1 - 2021/2/18
N2 - As part of a European Erasmus Plus project entitled Death Education for Palliative Psychology, this study assessed the ways in which Master’s Degree students in psychology and the creative arts therapies self-rated their confidence and interest in death education and palliative and bereavement care. In five countries (Austria, Israel, Italy, Poland, Romania), 344 students completed an online questionnaire, and 37 students were interviewed to better understand their views, interest, and confidence. The results revealed some significant differences between countries, and showed that older respondents with previous experience as formal caregivers for end-of-life clients showed greater interest in obtaining practical clinical competence in these fields. A mediation analysis indicated that students’ previous care experiences and past loss experiences were related to students’ current interest in death education and palliative and bereavement care through the mediation of their sense of confidence in this field. The qualitative findings identified five shared themes: life and death, learning about death, the psychological burden, personal experience and robust training, and four key training needs. Overall, students’ interest in studying and working with terminal illness and death are rooted in internal resources, a preliminary sense of confidence, but also external requirements.
AB - As part of a European Erasmus Plus project entitled Death Education for Palliative Psychology, this study assessed the ways in which Master’s Degree students in psychology and the creative arts therapies self-rated their confidence and interest in death education and palliative and bereavement care. In five countries (Austria, Israel, Italy, Poland, Romania), 344 students completed an online questionnaire, and 37 students were interviewed to better understand their views, interest, and confidence. The results revealed some significant differences between countries, and showed that older respondents with previous experience as formal caregivers for end-of-life clients showed greater interest in obtaining practical clinical competence in these fields. A mediation analysis indicated that students’ previous care experiences and past loss experiences were related to students’ current interest in death education and palliative and bereavement care through the mediation of their sense of confidence in this field. The qualitative findings identified five shared themes: life and death, learning about death, the psychological burden, personal experience and robust training, and four key training needs. Overall, students’ interest in studying and working with terminal illness and death are rooted in internal resources, a preliminary sense of confidence, but also external requirements.
KW - arts therapies
KW - bereavement
KW - death education
KW - loss
KW - palliative care
KW - psychodrama
KW - students
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102142527&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.616526
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.616526
M3 - Article
C2 - 33679532
AN - SCOPUS:85102142527
SN - 1664-1078
VL - 12
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
M1 - 616526
ER -