Hsiang-Chu Pai, Ying-Chi Lu, Sheuan Lee, Su-Yin Lee
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Background: Healthcare providers' health humanities, empathy, and communication effectiveness positively correlate with care recipient outcomes. These abilities can be enhanced by teaching design courses. In particular, comics and community dialogues are suitable for cultivating professional students' abilities. However, this method has not yet been used in studies involving healthcare professional students.
Objectives: This study develops a Comics and Interprofessional Community Dialogue (CICD) action programme for healthcare professional students to be used during emotion management courses and to evaluate the effects of this programme on changes in students' health humanities competence, empathy, and communication effectiveness. An additional aim is to determine the predictors of effective communication.
Methods: A single-group longitudinal study is conducted with professional healthcare students recruited from a medical university. The students completed three questionnaires: the Health Humanities Competence Scale, the Jefferson Scale of Empathy, and the Communication Effectiveness Profile at the beginning of the semester (Time 1), mid-semester (Time 2), and the end of the semester (Time 3). Changes in the scores for each questionnaire are analysed using generalised estimation models.
Results: The study's findings show that at Time 3, communication effectiveness is significantly higher than at Times 1 and 2 and is positively related to empathy and health humanities competence. These results indicate that a CICD action programme improves healthcare professional students' communication effectiveness and that students' empathy and health humanities affect their communication competence.
Conclusion: Health humanities competence and empathy are enhanced with a CICD, which helps healthcare professional students improve their communication effectiveness. Furthermore, the semester period, empathy, and health humanities competencies are predictors of healthcare professional students' communication effectiveness competencies.
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Nurse Education Today is the leading international journal providing a forum for the publication of high quality original research, review and debate in the discussion of nursing, midwifery and interprofessional health care education, publishing papers which contribute to the advancement of educational theory and pedagogy that support the evidence-based practice for educationalists worldwide. The journal stimulates and values critical scholarly debate on issues that have strategic relevance for leaders of health care education.
The journal publishes the highest quality scholarly contributions reflecting the diversity of people, health and education systems worldwide, by publishing research that employs rigorous methodology as well as by publishing papers that highlight the theoretical underpinnings of education and systems globally. The journal will publish papers that show depth, rigour, originality and high standards of presentation, in particular, work that is original, analytical and constructively critical of both previous work and current initiatives.
Authors are invited to submit original research, systematic and scholarly reviews, and critical papers which will stimulate debate on research, policy, theory or philosophy of nursing and related health care education, and which will meet and develop the journal''s high academic and ethical standards.
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