Date of Presentation
5-2-2024 12:00 AM
College
Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine
Poster Abstract
Healthcare students are under stress and can use different methods to cope with it. Mindfulness techniques such as guided meditation has been used as a way of helping these students reduce their stress levels. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether guided meditation has an effect on student doctors that translates into more positive interactions with patients. This study found that the student doctors who completed guided meditation felt less frustrated and less impatient while interacting with patients than student doctors who did not perform the guided meditation. Future studies on this topic should recruit more participants so the results could be statistically significant.
Keywords
Guided Meditation, Mindfulness, Patient interactions, Student Doctors, Meditation, Physician-Patient Relations, Medical Students, Psychological Stress
Disciplines
Alternative and Complementary Medicine | Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms | Medical Education | Medical Humanities | Medicine and Health Sciences | Psychiatric and Mental Health | Psychological Phenomena and Processes
Document Type
Poster
Included in
Alternative and Complementary Medicine Commons, Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms Commons, Medical Education Commons, Medical Humanities Commons, Psychiatric and Mental Health Commons, Psychological Phenomena and Processes Commons
The Effect of Guided Meditation on Student Doctor-Patient Interactions
Healthcare students are under stress and can use different methods to cope with it. Mindfulness techniques such as guided meditation has been used as a way of helping these students reduce their stress levels. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether guided meditation has an effect on student doctors that translates into more positive interactions with patients. This study found that the student doctors who completed guided meditation felt less frustrated and less impatient while interacting with patients than student doctors who did not perform the guided meditation. Future studies on this topic should recruit more participants so the results could be statistically significant.