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Time for Dementia: quantitative evaluation of a dementia education programme for healthcare students.
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posted on 2023-06-10, 07:11 authored by Stephanie DaleyStephanie Daley, Molly HebditchMolly Hebditch, Christopher Jones, Stephen BremnerStephen Bremner, Yvonne Feeney, Georgia Towson, Juliet Wright, Sube BanerjeeOBJECTIVES: The future healthcare workforce needs the skills, attitudes, and empathy to better meet the needs of those with dementia. Time for Dementia (TFD) is an educational programme in which healthcare students from a range of professional groups visit a person with dementia and their family carer over a two-year period. The aim of this study was to evaluate its impact on student attitudes, knowledge and empathy towards dementia. METHODS: Measures of dementia knowledge, attitudes and empathy were administered to healthcare students at five universities in the south of England before and after (24 months) they completed the TFD programme. Data were also collected at equivalent time points for a control group of students who had not taken part in the programme. Outcomes were modelled using multilevel linear regression models. RESULTS: 2,700 intervention group students, and 562 control group students consented to participate. Students undertaking the TFD programme had higher levels of knowledge and positive attitudes at follow-up compared to equivalent students who did not undertake the programme. Our findings indicate a positive relationship between the number of visits undertaken and increasing dementia knowledge and attitudes. No substantial differences in the development of empathy was observed between groups. CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that TFD may be effective across professional training programmes and universities. Further research into the mechanisms of action is needed.
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International Journal of Geriatric PsychiatryISSN
0885-6230Publisher
John Wiley & SonsExternal DOI
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38Page range
e5922Event location
EnglandDepartment affiliated with
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2023-05-31First Open Access (FOA) Date
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