ArticleAge and ageing2020
A qualitative evaluation of the effect of a longitudinal dementia education programme on healthcare student knowledge and attitudes.
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- Dementia Education and Training for the Multidisciplinary Student Healthcare Workforce: A Systematic Review.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
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- Experiences of Dietetic Students Taking Part in an Online Longitudinal Dementia Educational Programme: A Qualitative Study.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2025Article
- A dementia education programme for pre-registration nurses: a protocol for process and outcomes evaluation.Journal of research in nursing : JRN · 2024Article
- "Dementia Doesn't Mean That Life Doesn't Have More Wonderful Things Ahead": A Qualitative Study Evaluating a Canadian Dementia Support Services Program.Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ · 2024Article
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- Understanding the experiences of people with dementia and their family carers participating in healthcare student dementia education: A mixed-methods evaluation from the time for dementia programme.Dementia (London, England) · 2023Article
- What Motivates Physicians to Address Caregiver Needs? The Role of Experiential Similarity.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2023Article
- Medical student perceptions of autism education: A qualitative study.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2023Article
- Developing undergraduate autism education for medical students: a qualitative study.BMJ paediatrics open · 2022Article
- Preferences of newly qualified healthcare professionals for working with people with dementia: a qualitative study.Age and ageing · 2022Article
- A comparative study of the effect of the Time for Dementia programme on medical students.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2021Article
- Barriers and facilitators to implementing a longitudinal dementia education programme into undergraduate healthcare curricula: a qualitative study.BMC medical education · 2021Article
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Abstract
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objectivesThere is a need to ensure that the future healthcare workforce has the necessary knowledge and skills to deliver high quality compassionate care to the increasing number of people with dementia. Our programme has been set up to address this challenge. In the programme, undergraduate healthcare students (nursing, medical and paramedic) visit a family (person with dementia and their carer) in pairs over a 2-year period. This qualitative study sought to understand the student experience of the programme.
methodsParticipants were undergraduate healthcare students who were undertaking our programme at two universities. We sampled for variation in the student participants in order to generate a framework for understanding the student experience of the programme. Students were invited to take part in the qualitative study, and written consent was obtained. Interviews and focus group transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis.
resultsThirty-nine (nursing, medical and paramedic) student participants took part in individual in-depth qualitative interviews and 38 took part in five focus groups. Four key themes were identified from the analysis; relational learning, insight and understanding, challenging attitudes and enhanced dementia practice. DISCUSSION: Student experience of our programme was shown to be positive. The relationship between the students and family was most impactful in supporting student learning, and the subsequent improvement in knowledge, attitudes and practice. Our model of undergraduate dementia education has applicability for other long-term conditions.
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