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

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May 2nd, 12:00 AM

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.

 

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