Continuing professional development: researching non-technical competencies can support cognitive reappraisal and reduced stress in clinicians

Generic professional capabilities (non-technical competencies) are increasingly valued for their links to patient outcomes and clinician well-being. This study explores the emotional change, and practice-related outcomes, of participants of a veterinary professional key skills (PKS) continuing professional development (CPD) module. Reflective summaries produced by participants were analysed. A change in emotion, from ‘negative’ to ‘positive’, was the focus of analysis. Sections regarding these emotions were thematically analysed. Analysis was performed on 46 summaries. Three themes were identified: ‘the PKS module’ (centred on reluctance becoming surprise and stimulation), ‘developing non-technical competencies’ (unease to confidence) and ‘stress and coping through a reflective focus’ (anxiety to harmony). The changing emotions were connected to positive cognitive reappraisal and often behaviour changes, benefitting self, practice, clients and patients. The PKS module teaches participants to reflect; a new and challenging concept. The consequences of this enabled participants to understand the importance of professional topics, to be appreciative as well as critical, and to enjoy their job. Importantly, the module stimulated coping responses. Better understanding of roles led to participants having more reasonable expectations of themselves, more appreciation of their work and reduced stress. This research supports more attention to professional skills CPD for health professions.

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Building Veterinarians beyond Veterinary School: Challenges and Opportunities for Continuing Professional Development in Veterinary Medicine

Journal of Veterinary Medical Education ◽

10.3138/jvme.2019-0148 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. e20190148

Author(s):

M. Carolyn Gates ◽

Iain McLachlan ◽

Seton Butler ◽

Jenny F. Weston

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Professional Competence ◽

Animal Health ◽

Continuing Professional Development ◽

Well Being ◽

Veterinary Profession ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Minimum Number ◽

Veterinary School ◽

Based Medicine

Continuing professional development (CPD) is an important mechanism for veterinarians to acquire, maintain, and enhance their capability to perform competently in their chosen practice area over their career. Although most licensing bodies require veterinarians to complete a minimum number of CPD hours each registration cycle, there are known issues with verifying that these activities are having the desired effects of ensuring professional competence and improving outcomes for patients, owners, and veterinarians. In this review, we summarize the literature across different health care professions to highlight three key challenges for veterinary CPD programs. These are (a) defining what it means to be professionally competent across different career stages from graduation to retirement, (b) delivering CPD activities that are effective in promoting evidence-based medicine and behavioral change in practice, and (c) developing reliable and sustainable systems to formally assess the continued professional competence of veterinarians. A common theme across all challenges was the importance of interacting with colleagues as an opportunity to receive external feedback on their professional strengths and weaknesses and to develop stronger support networks for managing common stressors in clinical practice. There was also a recognized need to develop more transparent outlines of the available and acceptable options for managing different animal health concerns as a first step toward identifying new opportunities for the veterinary profession to elevate the level of care provided. Based on these findings, we propose a new framework for defining, delivering, and evaluating CPD that promotes stronger collaboration between veterinarians to improve professional and personal well-being.

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Filipino Seafarers’ Lived Experiences towards a Wellness Model

IAMURE International Journal of Social Sciences ◽

10.7718/ijss.v10i1.834 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

GINA MAE H. BASCO ◽

MA. CECILIA DETOSIL ALIMEN ◽

ROLANDO A. ALIMEN

Keyword(s):

Focus Group ◽

Lived Experiences ◽

Group Discussion ◽

Poor Performance ◽

Phenomenological Theory ◽

Well Being ◽

Wellness Program ◽

Coping Responses ◽

Disturbed Sleep ◽

And Coping

This quantitative-qualitative study was conducted to describe the livedexperiences relating to stress, stressors, and coping responses of Filipino seafarersleading to the design of a biopsychosociospiritual wellness program. This studywas anchored on van Manen’s (1990) phenomenological theory. Respondents of this study were ten (10) selected seafarers. This study used interviews, questionnaires, and focus group discussion. Results were as follows: seafarershave experienced disturbed sleep, headache, and depression, as their main stressexperiences; seafarers’ stressors experienced were delayed promotion, insufficientincome, and children’s poor health and children’s poor performance; seafarers’coping behaviors were praying, talking with friends or shipmates, and viewingmovies; seafarers’ autonomy through the design of the wellness program toimprove their life and their well-being not only for themselves but for their lovedones. Comprehensive Wellness Program for Seafarers: A BiopsychosociospiritualApproach describes the holistic and comprehensive strategies/activitiesthat seafarers can engage with to assure their over-all wellness and holisticdevelopment. Seafarer’s health, creating a full and balanced lifestyle and achievesthe best professional can be achieved. Interest in the plight of seafarers coincideswith the comprehensive whole seafarer wellness model that includes biological,psychological, social and spiritual dimensions.Keywords: Biopsychosociospiritual wellness program, lived experiences, stress, copingresponses

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Well-being and quality of life among oral cancer patients – Psychological vulnerability and coping responses upon entering initial treatment

Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery ◽

10.1016/j.jcms.2018.05.042 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 46 (9) ◽

pp. 1637-1644 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Anne Susann Bachmann ◽

Anna Christina Zaunbauer ◽

Anna Maria Tolke ◽

Michael Siniatchkin ◽

Christoph Kluck ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Oral Cancer ◽

Cancer Patients ◽

Initial Treatment ◽

Well Being ◽

Coping Responses ◽

Oral Cancer Patients ◽

Psychological Vulnerability ◽

And Coping

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‘My hip is damaged’: a qualitative investigation of people seeking care for persistent hip pain

British Journal of Sports Medicine ◽

10.1136/bjsports-2019-101281 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 54 (14) ◽

pp. 858-865 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Beatriz I R de Oliveira ◽

Anne Julia Smith ◽

Peter P B O'Sullivan ◽

Samantha Haebich ◽

Daniel Fick ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Well Being ◽

Hip Pain ◽

Physical And Mental Health ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Coping Responses ◽

Negative Beliefs ◽

Lack Of Control ◽

Framework Approach ◽

And Coping

ObjectivesClinicians who use the biopsychosocial approach to manage musculoskeletal pain disorders aim to understand how patients make sense of their symptoms. Treatment includes targeting the negative beliefs and coping responses that can lead to progressive pain and disability. We aimed to explore how people seeking care for persistent hip pain and disability make sense of their symptoms.MethodsCross-sectional qualitative study. People were eligible if they were aged ≥18 years, were consulting an orthopaedic surgeon for persistent hip pain and offered a non-surgical intervention. Data were collected through interviews that explored patients’ beliefs about the identity (diagnosis), causes, consequences, timeline and controllability of their symptoms, their strategies to cope with pain and their experiences in seeking healthcare. Transcribed interview data were analysed thematically using a framework approach.ResultsSixteen people (median age=51, range=33–73 years; median duration hip pain=3 years, range=3 months–20 years) participated. Most participants (10/16) believed their pain was caused by an exercise-related injury. Because of the results of imaging and interactions with healthcare professionals, all participants believed they had damaged hip structures. All described ineffective strategies to manage their pain and multiple failed treatments. For many (7/16), a lack of control over symptoms threatened their physical and mental health.ConclusionsThe way participants with persistent hip pain and disability made sense of their symptoms contributed to them avoiding physical activity, and it impaired their sleep, emotional well-being and physical health.

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Religiosity and Resilience: Cognitive Reappraisal and Coping Self-Efficacy Mediate the Link between Religious Coping and Well-Being

Journal of Religion and Health ◽

10.1007/s10943-020-01160-y ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Florin Dolcos ◽

Kelly Hohl ◽

Yifan Hu ◽

Sanda Dolcos

Keyword(s):

Religious Coping ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Cognitive Reappraisal ◽

Well Being ◽

And Coping

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An approach to develop a continuing professional development workshop for nurses to differentiate, delirium, dementia and depression among older adults

Journal of Nursing Education and Practice ◽

10.5430/jnep.v10n8p16 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (8) ◽

pp. 16

Author(s):

Hala Elansari ◽

Jessie Johnson ◽

Daniel Robert Kelly

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Older Adults ◽

Acute Care ◽

Quality Care ◽

Functional Decline ◽

Continuing Professional Development ◽

Health Care Expenditures ◽

Well Being ◽

Acute Care Settings ◽

Lack Of Knowledge

Delirium, dementia, and depression challenge nurses in acute care settings. They negatively impact older adult's health, well-being, and quality of life. Misdiagnosis of delirium, dementia, and depression is associated with higher mortality rate, functional decline, increased length of stay, higher admission and institutionalization rates, and higher health care expenditures. Nurses in acute care settings have a lack of knowledge about delirium, dementia, and depression. This lack of knowledge could have implication as necessary referrals to physicians is needed in order to ensure initiating of appropriate treatment. Continuing professional development is necessary to keep nurses abreast of the rapid changes in knowledge and technology needed to provide safe and high quality services. Providing an opportunity to participate in continuing professional development on this particular subject would go a long way to facilitate knowledge translation. As a result nurses will be equipped with the adequate knowledge and skills to meet the overall goal of providing quality care for older adults in different care settings.

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Components of Unrealistic Optimism of College Students: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.763581 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Yohanan Eshel ◽

Shaul Kimhi ◽

Hadas Marciano ◽

Bruria Adini

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Academic Success ◽

Social Life ◽

Well Being ◽

Unrealistic Optimism ◽

Health Security ◽

Perceived Risks ◽

Coping Responses ◽

And Coping ◽

Psychological Coping

College students are among the most strongly affected populations by the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic because of uncertainty regarding academic success, future careers, and social life during their study period. Their mental health and behavior may dramatically be impacted. The study examined an unrealistic optimism of Israeli college students in assessing the health, security, and economic risks during the pandemic, and the contributions of these perceived risks to the prediction of psychological coping responses, such as well-being, and coping suppressing response of anxiety, expressed during this pandemic. Using social networks, a questionnaire was disseminated to students during the third lockdown that was implemented in Israel because of the pandemic. Depressive and anxiety symptoms, perceived threats, resilience, well-being, hope, and morale were measured using a structured quantitative questionnaire. First, we hypothesized that the three perceived risks would be inversely rated, so perceived health risk would be rated lowest, and perceived economic risk would be rated highest. The second and third hypotheses claimed that psychological coping responses articulated along this pandemic would be predicted by all these perceived risks, as well as the observance of pandemic precaution rules. The fourth hypothesis suggested that the three investigated perceived risks will positively and significantly correlate with each other. The results generally supported the hypotheses and indicated that the unrealistic optimism process was employed quite consistently by the participating students.

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The Self-Efficacy in Multiple Sclerosis (SEMS) Scale

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759/a000350 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 34 (5) ◽

pp. 352-360 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Silvia Bonino ◽

Federica Graziano ◽

Martina Borghi ◽

Davide Marengo ◽

Giorgia Molinengo ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Multiple Sclerosis ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Measurement Invariance ◽

Sense Of Coherence ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Concurrent Validity ◽

Rasch Analysis ◽

Well Being ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

And Coping

Abstract. This research developed a new scale to evaluate Self-Efficacy in Multiple Sclerosis (SEMS). The aim of this study was to investigate dimensionality, item functioning, measurement invariance, and concurrent validity of the SEMS scale. Data were collected from 203 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients (mean age, 39.5 years; 66% women; 95% having a relapsing remitting form of MS). Fifteen items of the SEMS scale were submitted to patients along with measures of psychological well-being, sense of coherence, depression, and coping strategies. Data underwent Rasch analysis and correlation analysis. Rasch analysis indicates the SEMS as a multidimensional construct characterized by two correlated dimensions: goal setting and symptom management, with satisfactory reliability coefficients. Overall, the 15 items reported acceptable fit statistics; the scale demonstrated measurement invariance (with respect to gender and disease duration) and good concurrent validity (positive correlations with psychological well-being, sense of coherence, and coping strategies and negative correlations with depression). Preliminary evidence suggests that SEMS is a psychometrically sound measure to evaluate perceived self-efficacy of MS patients with moderate disability, and it would be a valuable instrument for both research and clinical applications.

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