Autor según el artículo: Miró J; Castarlenas E; Solé E; Martí L; Salvat I; Reinoso-Barbero F

Departamento: Psicologia

Autor/es de la URV: Castarlenas Solé, Elena Teresa / Miró Martínez, Jordi / Salvat Salvat, María Isabel / Sole Pijuan, Ester

Palabras clave: Undergraduate training Teaching methods Pain education Health sciences Education Curriculum teaching methods pain education health sciences curriculum

Resumen: © 2019 The Author(s). Background: Pain management is a challenge and effective treatment requires professionals to collaborate if they are to address the needs of patients with pain. Comprehensive education and training is key to helping skilled professionals provide the best pain care possible. The objective of this work was to study the content of the pain education provided to undergraduates in healthcare and veterinary programs in Spain. Methods: A survey was developed on the basis of previous surveys that had been used in the field. The final version included 31 questions about different issues on pain education, including, type of subject, number of pain mandatory/elective hours, and specific content covered. The survey was sent to all course leaders for all subjects on the undergraduate programs in Dentistry, Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Psychology, and Veterinary Science, in Catalonia, Spain. The survey was conducted from January to June, 2018. Students' t-test were used to study mean differences in responses. Results: A total of 550 course leaders from all healthcare undergraduate programs in Catalan universities took part. There were considerable differences in the number of pain-related hours among disciplines: Nursing reported the highest number of hours, and Psychology the lowest. The area least covered by all the disciplines was the Management of pain, and particularly the content related to the most vulnerable members of society (i.e., youths, the elderly and special populations). No interprofessional educational program on pain was identified. Conclusions: Pain is not such a large component of the undergraduate healthcare curriculum in Spain as could be expected given the extent of pain and its impact. Curricula need to be changed so that the problems all stakeholders have with pain care can be addressed.

Áreas temáticas: Saúde coletiva Odontología Medicine (miscellaneous) Medicina iii Medicina ii Medicina i Interdisciplinar General medicine Ensino Enfermagem Education, scientific disciplines Education & educational research Education Educació Educação física Educação Ciencias sociales Biotecnología Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 14726920

Direcció de correo del autor: mariaisabel.salvat@urv.cat ester.sole@urv.cat jordi.miro@urv.cat elena.castarlenas@urv.cat

Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-1540-8143 0000-0002-1998-6653 0000-0003-0383-2526

Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-06-09

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-019-1741-5

URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Bmc Medical Education. 19 (1): 307-

Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Miró J; Castarlenas E; Solé E; Martí L; Salvat I; Reinoso-Barbero F (2019). Pain curricula across healthcare professions undergraduate degrees: A cross-sectional study in Catalonia, Spain. Bmc Medical Education, 19(1), 307-. DOI: 10.1186/s12909-019-1741-5

DOI del artículo: 10.1186/s12909-019-1741-5

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2019

Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications