Luciana C Chiapella, Cecilia L Lazzarini, Silvana M Montenegro
[Is it necessary to have advanced statistical knowledge to access medical literacy?]
Medicina
patient involvement interprofessional education novel approach building collaborative empathic skills students however area teaching lacking rigorous studies project aimed evaluate whether interprofessional education intervention partnership patient educators ipepe would increase readiness interprofessional learning empathy health sciences students report didactic innovation project participants included 310 undergraduate health sciences students took part ipepe intervention data collected training using readiness interprofessional learning scale ripls jefferson scale empathyhealth professions student version jsehps end intervention data collection form administered explore value patient educator training investigate sociodemographic variables mean age participants 2132 sd years 76 female paired ttest showed significant changes ipepe mean total ripls score 42758 sd vs 446259 sd p0001 mean total jsehps score 1127125 sd vs 11603128 sd p0001 conclusions students reported ipepe helped become effective healthcare team members think positively professionals gain empathic understanding perspective person cared results project confirm intervention promoted development empathy fostering better understanding patientcentred perspective