RT Journal Article
T1 Assessment of a medical student mentoring programme to improve attitudes related to grief and coping with death
A1 Álvarez Montero, Santiago
A1 Crespí, Paula
A1 Gómez Salgado, Juan
A1 Ramírez Durán, María del Valle
A1 Rodríguez Gabriel, María del Pilar
A1 Coronado Vázquez, María del Valle
AB Objectives: To evaluate the impact of a mentoring programme for medical students doing apalliative care rotation, aimed at improving coping with death and attitudes towards the sufferingproduced by illness.Methods: A quasi-experimental study without a control group was carried out on second-yearmedical students. Five 1-h group sessions were conducted. Attitudes towards grief and copingwith death were assessed before the mentoring programme began and afterwards, using the BriefHumanizar Scale and the Bugen’s Coping with Death Scale, respectively.Results: In terms of the sense of grieving as measured by the Brief Humanizar Scale, the meanscore for the ‘Burden’ factor was 7 points and for the ‘Change’ factor it was 28.6, indicating thatsuffering makes more sense as a lever for positive change than as a burden. Regarding Bugen’sCoping with Death Scale, the mean score was 127.8 points before the mentoring programme and139.2 afterwards. Hence, the score after the mentoring programme increased by 11.4 points,improving strategies to cope with death.Conclusion: Medical professionals must cope with death and end-of-life patients. In addition toscientific knowledge, students need to acquire competencies for better coping with the death ofpatients, with mentoring programmes helping to enhance this process of learning.
PB Elsevier
SN 2405-8440 (electrónico)
YR 2023
FD 2023-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23274
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23274
LA eng
NO Álvarez-Montero, S., Crespí, P., Gómez-Salgado, J., Ramírez-Durán, M. V., Rodríguez-Gabriel, M. del P., & Coronado-Vázquez, V. (2023). Assessment of a medical student mentoring programme to improve attitudes related to grief and coping with death. In Heliyon (Vol. 9, Issue 10, p. e20959). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20959
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026