Anne-Marie Brady, Jennifer Fortune, Ahmed Hassan Ali, Geraldine Prizeman, Wing Ting To, Grainne Courtney, Kama Stokes, Miriam Roche
Multidisciplinary user experience of a newly implemented electronic patient record in Ireland: An exploratory qualitative study
International journal of medical informatics
narrative medicine serve tool empathize human beings predicament suffering research intended examine whether use narrative medicine form empathetic connection could bring positive impacts health professions students twogroup quasiexperimental design adopted examine whether intervention narrative medicine form empathetic connection could demonstrate differences experimental group 35 students control group 32 students regard professional identity selfreflection emotional catharsis reflective writing competency 67 participants health professions students medical university mean age 2002 sd 023 varied majors health disciplines 16week intervention use narrative medicine form empathetic connection suffering via three stages narrative medicine attention representation affiliation quantitative instruments included professional identity scale pishsp reflective thinking scale rtshsp emotional catharsis scale ecsin well analytic reflective writing scoring rubric arwsrhsp triangulate quantitative results study also used student interviews spss software used analyze data quantitative results demonstrated narrative medicinebased intervention could bring positive effects health professions students going intervention students experimental group stronger professional identity higher reflective thinking level emotional catharsis greater improvement reflective writing competency receiving intervention though subscales reaching statistical significance research results proved use narrative medicine form empathetic connection could bring positive impacts health professions students regarding professional identity selfreflection emotional catharsis selfreflective writing competency