Mindfulness-based self-care education for healthcare professional students in Japan

[Background] Recent studies have consistently shown that medical students experience a high rate of psychological symptoms. In this situation, teaching mindfulness in medical school has the potential to prevent student burnout. However, there are few consistent educational programs in medical schools throughout Japan.[Method] Since 2015, Showa University (Tokyo) has practiced an intensive self-care program based on mindfulness for 600 first-year healthcare professional students in the schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, and rehabilitation. The target objectives of this program were as follows: understand the needs of self-care, enhance self-awareness, evaluate evidence of mindfulness for mental diseases, and practice formal/informal mindfulness-based activities. This program consisted of a 90-minute lecture, followed by consecutive reflective activities, including completing personal journals and portfolios. The students were required to plan how to make use of what they learned in this course. The students were asked to complete a questionnaire upon completion of the course.[Results] The questionnaire indicated that more than 90% of the students were satisfied with the program, and about 25% started regular mindfulness-based practices such as meditation and breathing methods aimed to reduce test anxiety. Descriptions from the e-portfolio showed that the participants understood evitable stressors and the importance of the body-mind relationship.[Conclusion] Mindfulness-based self-care education can encourage healthcare students to understand the necessity of self-care during the early stages of their professional training. This program for the first year students will be followed by a course on Professionalism for healthcare professional students during their subsequent years of university education.

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The self-care education for healthcare professional students using mindfulness

International Journal of Whole Person Care ◽

10.26443/ijwpc.v5i1.171 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yusuke Takamiya ◽

Shizuma Tsuchiya

Keyword(s):

Healthcare Professional ◽

Professional Training ◽

Psychological Symptoms ◽

Self Care ◽

Care Program ◽

High Rate ◽

First Year ◽

Self Awareness ◽

Professional Students ◽

Dependent Behavior

Background Recent studies has consistently shown medical students experience high rate psychological symptoms. Under this circumstance teaching mindfulness is a possible option. However, there are few consistent educational courses in medical schools in Japan.Method Showa University (Tokyo, Japan) launched an intensive self-care program based on mindfulness for 600 first-year healthcare professional students in 2015 (120 medicine, 110 dentistry, 210 pharmacist, 100 nursing, 60 PT and OT). The target achievements of this program were as follows:Understand the needs of self-care, Enhance self-awareness, Evaluate evidence of mindfulness for mental diseases, Practice formal/informal mindfulness-based activities. This program consisted of a 90-minutes lecture, and consecutive reflective activities completing personal journals and portfolio follow the lectures. The students are required to plan how to make use of what they learned in this course. The students were asked to complete a questionnaire after the course.Results The questionnaire indicated that 98% of the students were satisfied with the course materials. In particular, some participants stated that regular mindfulness-based practices such as meditation, breathing method, and even informal mindfulness activities in daily life reduced test anxiety, mood- dependent behavior, and absence of flexibility. Descriptions from the e-portfolio showed that the participants understood the importance of body-mind relationship and evitable stressors around them.ConclusionTeaching mindfulness could encourage healthcare students to understand the necessity of self-care at early stages of their professional training. The results would help to develop our next stage of this self-care program based on mindfulness, 12 weekly 1.5-hours session.

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P301 Trial of the Self-care Education for Healthcare Professional Students –Using Mindfulness

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management ◽

10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2016.10.321 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 52 (6) ◽

pp. e144-e145

Author(s):

Yusuke Takamiya ◽

Shizuma Tsuchiya

Keyword(s):

Healthcare Professional ◽

Self Care ◽

The Self ◽

Professional Students ◽

Care Education

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Impact of a First-Year Student Pharmacist Diabetes Self-Care Education Program

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education ◽

10.5688/ajpe7710215 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 77 (10) ◽

pp. 215 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Candis M. Morello ◽

Melissa Neighbors ◽

Linda Luu ◽

Shawna Kobayashi ◽

Brandon Mutrux ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Education Program ◽

Self Care ◽

First Year ◽

Care Education ◽

First Year Student

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Attitude of Students Studying to be Nursery School Teachers Towards Study and Their Future Profession

Lifelong Learning ◽

10.11118/lifele2011010239 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 39-45

Author(s):

Lucie Zormanová

Keyword(s):

Professional Training ◽

Nursery School ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

Teaching Profession ◽

The Body ◽

First Year ◽

Exploratory Research ◽

School Teachers ◽

First Year Students ◽

The University

This research deals with the personal characteristics and motivations of girls studying to be nursery school teachers through blended learning courses at the University of South Bohemia’s Pedagogical Faculty in České Budějovice. The exploratory research is aimed at contributing to the body of knowledge on the personalities of students studying to be teachers and identifying the motivation of their choice of study. It is further aimed at ascertaining what first-year students expect from the university faculty in regards to preparing them for their future teaching profession. The issue of what motivates students to study teaching is connected with the issue of expectations and an evaluation of the concept of professional training at our faculty; as it has been shown that these issues are closely connected. The tool used in this research was a questionnaire. It was intentionally decided to include in the research sample only those students who had not yet worked at a nursery school and who are just making the decision to pursue a career in teaching.

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Stress and Basic Need Satisfaction of First-Year Healthcare Professional Students

Medical Science Educator ◽

10.1007/s40670-021-01207-z ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Melinda Verdone ◽

Milena Murray

Keyword(s):

Healthcare Professional ◽

Need Satisfaction ◽

First Year ◽

Basic Need Satisfaction ◽

Professional Students ◽

Basic Need

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Defining the Competence of Psychologists with a View to Public Accountability *

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040.2.4.293 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 293-300 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Ype H. Poortinga ◽

Ingrid Lunt

Keyword(s):

Scientific Knowledge ◽

Professional Training ◽

Professional Competence ◽

Codes Of Ethics ◽

The Body ◽

The European Union ◽

Rigorous Evaluation ◽

Judicial Proceedings ◽

Psychological Knowledge

In national codes of ethics the practice of psychology is presented as rooted in scientific knowledge, professional skills, and experience. However, it is not self-evident that the body of scientific knowledge in psychology provides an adequate basis for current professional practice. Professional training and experience are seen as necessary for the application of psychological knowledge, but they appear insufficient to defend the soundness of one's practices when challenged in judicial proceedings of a kind that may be faced by psychologists in the European Union in the not too distant future. In seeking to define the basis for the professional competence of psychologists, this article recommends taking a position of modesty concerning the scope and effectiveness of psychological interventions. In many circumstances, psychologists can only provide partial advice, narrowing down the range of possible courses of action more by eliminating unpromising ones than by pointing out the most correct or most favorable one. By emphasizing rigorous evaluation, the profession should gain in accountability and, in the long term, in respectability.

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Self-Care Program for Thais with Hyperlipidemia

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e570112013-018 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Arissara Sukwatjanee

Keyword(s):

Self Care ◽

Care Program

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MODERN CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES FOR PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE SOCIAL EDUCATION FROM SOCIAL PROTECTION OF YOUTH

Pedagogical education: theory and practice. Psychology. Pedagogy ◽

10.28925/2311-2409.2019.32.10 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 76-80

Author(s):

L. Gonchar ◽

Y. Spivak

Keyword(s):

Professional Training ◽

Social Protection ◽

Professional Competence ◽

Research Problem ◽

University Education ◽

Social Education ◽

Social Thinking ◽

Social Sphere ◽

Youth Rights ◽

Social Pedagogues

The article outlines the historical milestones of the formation and development of the problem of professional competence of future social educators on social protection of youth rights from the 90s of the XX century to the present. The scientific literature on the research problem is analyzed. Conceptual approaches to professional training of future social educators on social protection of youth rights (systemic, civilizational, sociocultural, personal, activity, professional, socio-pedagogical, methodological technological) are defined and their essential characteristics are revealed. The content and structural components of the professional training of future social educators on social protection of youth rights are characterized. The peculiarities of development of both the system of becoming a profession of social educators and the system of its professional preparation for practical activity in the social sphere are given. The essence of the concept of «social education» is revealed. The importance of the influence of social education in its various interpretations on sociology, which is the basis of the development of the culture of social thinking in the XX-XXI centuries, is revealed. The factors of influence on the formation of the outlook values of future social educators are presented. The modern tendencies of professional training of future social educators on social protection of youth rights (intensification and extension of university education, multilevel and variability of education, strengthening of psychological and pedagogical and general educational components, integration) are determined. The peculiarities of vocational training of social pedagogues in several universities of Ukraine are studied

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Effect of Self - Care Program on the Self- Esteem of Multiple Sclerosis Patients

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/s0924-9338(09)71173-3 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 24 (S1) ◽

pp. 1-1

Author(s):

H. Madani ◽

H. Navipoor ◽

P. Roozbayani

Keyword(s):

Multiple Sclerosis ◽

Self Care ◽

Care Program ◽

Self Esteem ◽

The Self ◽

Self Report ◽

The Mean ◽

Muscular Spasm ◽

Multiple Sclerosis Patients ◽

Paired T Test

Aims:According to decreased self- esteem in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, it is necessary to utilize appropriate methods in order to improve self- esteem in MS patients. So this study was conducted on patients with MS supported by the Iranian MS society for determining the effect of self - care program on their self- esteem.Method:In this semi - experimental study 34 patients with MS who were not in the acute phase of disease were selected. The data were collected via personal questionnaires, problem list, Cooper and smith standard questionnaire for self- esteem and self report check lists. Self - care program(self - care for muscular spasm, fatigue, constipation and amnesia and …) was educated, then it was performed for one month period and the data were analyzed using paired t- test, wilcoxon, croscal - wallis and manwithney tests.Results:Application of self - care program improve the self- esteem and reduced some symptoms such as muscular spasm, fatigue, constipation and amnesia in MS patients. The mean valve of self- esteem increased from 54 before performing the program to 68 after the program ( p < 0.05).Conclusion:Using self-care program can be an effective method for improving self- esteem of MS patients.

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