A pilot study assessing emotional intelligence training and communication skills with 3rd year medical students

2009 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Fletcher ◽  
Peter Leadbetter ◽  
Andrew Curran ◽  
Helen O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Emotional Intelligence Training

Translating medical documents into plain language enhances communication skills in medical students – A pilot study

2015 ◽  
Vol 98 (9) ◽  
pp. 1137-1141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Bittner ◽  
Ansgar Jonietz ◽  
Johannes Bittner ◽  
Luise Beickert ◽  
Sigrid Harendza
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Plain Language ◽  
Medical Documents

scholarly journals The application of team-based learning in emotional intelligence training for medical students: A pre–post-test study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjiao Yang ◽  
Yu Chen ◽  
YuanMin Gao ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
Fan Fang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Course Evaluation ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Emotional Management ◽  
Team Based Learning ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Emotional Intelligence Training ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background Emotional intelligence represents a person’s interpersonal and communication competencies, and influences medical students and their clinical careers. The aim is to evaluate the impact of team-based learning in an emotional intelligence training intervention among Chinese medical students. Methods This is a quasi-experimental, one-group pre–post-test assessment. A convenience sample of medical university students took an elective course in emotional management recruited for this study. An emotional management course was designed to provide college students with basic knowledge about emotional regulation and to provide opportunities for emotional management practice. The course composed of traditional face-to-face education and the new style of teamwork. They completed the educational modules using their personal computers or cell phones. Using the Emotional Intelligence Scale, Caring Ability Inventory, and a course evaluation questionnaire, two research assistants collected data before and after delivery of the intervention. Descriptive statistics were calculated for sociodemographic data. Categorical data were described as frequencies, and continuous data were expressed as means. Differences in respondent characteristics between the pre- and post-intervention assessments were investigated using the chi-squared test. The paired-samples t test was used to investigate differences between pre- and post-intervention. Ninety-eight students completed the pre-intervention questionnaire and 82 students completed the post-intervention questionnaire. Results The intervention improved students’ emotional intelligence and caring ability, as indicated by increased scores in perceiving and expressing emotions (t = 7.045, P < 0.01), regulating emotions (t = 6.094, P < 0.001), knowing (t = 4.268, P < 0.001), and courage (t = 4.842, P < 0.001). Students' average course evaluation ratings were >4 points (The total score is 5.). Conclusions This intervention has the potential to influence medical students’ emotional intelligence and caring behavior.

Narrowing the empathy gap between doctors and patients using emotion forecasting

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Guoying Qian ◽  
Wen Zheng ◽  
Shuchang Liu ◽  
Suo Jiang ◽  
Yuan Du ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Affective Forecasting ◽  
Chinese Medical Students ◽  
Emotional Intelligence Training ◽  
Empathy Gap

We investigated the differences between medical students' affective forecasting for self and their forecasting of patients' affective responses. To do this, we developed an affective forecasting situation questionnaire and tested its validity with a sample of 272 Chinese medical students and 66 patients. Results showed that there was a significant correlation between medical students' affective forecasting for self and their forecasting of patients' emotions. Medical students who were calmer (vs. less calm) during affective forecasting for themselves were more accurate in forecasting the patient's emotions. We suggest that emotional intelligence training should be highlighted in Chinese medical education to improve students' ability to forecast their own and others' emotions.

scholarly journals A social work study on the effect of emotional intelligence training on communication skills

2013 ◽  
pp. 2339-2342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahar Mirghobad Khodarahmi ◽  
Amir Hesam Khjeh ◽  
Mehdi Poorkord ◽  
Maliheh Yaghoubzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Work Study ◽  
Emotional Intelligence Training

scholarly journals Care Farming Program for Family Health: A Pilot Study with Mothers and Children

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
A-Young Lee ◽  
Seon Ok Kim ◽  
Gyung Mee Gim ◽  
Dae Sik Kim ◽  
Sin-Ae Park
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Family Interaction ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Mothers And Children ◽  
Care Farming

We designed a pilot study to develop a family interaction model-integrated a care farming program with mother-child pairs as the participants. In this pilot study, we aimed to assess the effects of the care farming program on communication skills and psychological health in families. Sixteen mother-child pairs in Sejong, South Korea participated in this study. The families participated in a care farming program once a week for six weeks (90 min per session) between May and July 2018. The care farming program was developed based on parenting education skills, strengths-based cognitive behavioral therapy, and the emotional intelligence model; the result was a family interaction model intended to improve communication and psychological health among mothers and children. The program consisted of gardening activities such as making a garden plot, planting transplants, harvesting, and cooking the harvested crops. Upon completion of the six-session program, we evaluated communication with the Parent-Children Communication Inventory, depression with the Beck Depression Inventory, and resilience with the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale among the mothers. We also evaluated emotional intelligence among the children with the Emotional Intelligence Scale. According to post-intervention results, mothers showed significantly increased resilience, improved communication skills with their child, and decreased depression, while children showed significantly improved emotional intelligence (p < 0.05). Despite the study’s limitation in establishing causality between the care farming program and the observed effects on family health, the care farming program clearly contributed to the observed improvements of mother-child communication skills, mothers’ psychological health, and children’s emotional intelligence, which in turn improved overall family health.

scholarly journals A Holistic Approach of Personality Traits in Medical Students: An Integrative Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (23) ◽  
pp. 12822
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Suciu ◽  
Lorena Elena Meliț ◽  
Cristina Oana Mărginean
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Interprofessional Education ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Interprofessional Collaboration ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Clinical Communication

Personality is one of the most crucial aspects of human life, since it influences all human behaviours in both personal and social life, and might also trigger important conflicts with a person’s surroundings in the setting of incompatible traits and characteristics. It is true that ‘one must be born’ for a certain medical specialty, but several components of personality might be educated with proper training. Increased levels of Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and Openness associated with lower levels of Neuroticism might represent the key combination for achieving professional satisfaction in the medical profession. Medical students should receive proper interprofessional education, since effective interprofessional relationships among healthcare providers definitely improve patients’ safety. Empathy contributes to effective patient–physician communication, improving patient trust, compliance, and satisfaction, being positively correlated with Openness, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness and Extraversion. Emotional intelligence—the capacity to respond to one’s own and others’ emotions—was proven to contribute, in a synergistic way with empathy, to increasing empathic ability. Clinical communication skills represent a key component in medical students in order to achieve the best patient care, and they are certainly related and/or influenced by empathy, interprofessional collaboration skills, emotional intelligence and, especially, personality traits. Taking into account the complex interactions mentioned above, the implementation of effective courses based on these concepts in medical students, intending to promote the development of clinical communication skills, represents a real emergency, since it might result in a reduction in medical errors and subsequent related deaths. A thorough understanding of students’ personality is mandatory before designing these courses in order to provide a training tailored to their personality styles.

scholarly journals Emotional Intelligence Training for Reducing Illicit Drug Use Potential among Iranian Nurses: A Pilot Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Hossein Goudarzian ◽  
Ravanbakhsh Esmaeili ◽  
Reza Alizadeh-Navaei ◽  
Maryam Yousefi ◽  
Abbas Balouchi
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
Illicit Drug Use ◽  
Emotional Intelligence Training
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