Garrie Alaina J, Goel Shruti, Forsberg Martin M
New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging, Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, NJ 08084, USA.
Int J Alzheimers Dis. 2016;2016:2785105. doi: 10.1155/2016/2785105. Epub 2016 Feb 9.
Purpose. Researchers assessed whether medical students' participation in a poetry workshop with people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) affected their attitudes towards persons with ADRD. Objective. To add to the growing body of research summarizing the impact of nonclinical interventions on medical students' perspectives about people with ADRD. Design. Researchers used dementia attitudes scale (DAS) and interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) to analyze participants' attitudes. Setting. Osteopathic medical school and dementia care unit in the state of New Jersey. Participants. Eleven out of fourteen medical students completed the study. Measurements. Emerging themes were classified from the postintervention semistructured interviews and descriptive statistics were used to compare the preintervention to postintervention DAS. Results. Researchers found statistically significant differences between preintervention and postintervention DAS scores. Study participants scored a preintervention DAS mean, 107.09 (SD = 11.85), that changed positively and significantly to the postintervention DAS mean, 121.82 (SD = 10.38). DAS subdomains, "comfort" (P = 0.002) and "knowledge" (P = 0.01), and eleven of the twenty DAS items underwent a positive and statistically significant shift from preintervention to postintervention. IPA of the interviews yielded five primary and five secondary themes, supporting the measured statistical outcomes. Conclusion. Medical students' participation in a poetry workshop, with people with ADRD, positively impacts their attitudes.
目的。研究人员评估了医学生参与与阿尔茨海默病及相关痴呆症（ADRD）患者的诗歌工作坊是否会影响他们对ADRD患者的态度。目标。补充越来越多的研究，总结非临床干预对医学生对ADRD患者看法的影响。设计。研究人员使用痴呆症态度量表（DAS）和解释现象学分析（IPA）来分析参与者的态度。背景。新泽西州的一所整骨医学院和痴呆症护理单元。参与者。十四名医学生中有十一名完成了研究。测量。从干预后的半结构化访谈中分类出新兴主题，并使用描述性统计来比较干预前和干预后的DAS。结果。研究人员发现干预前和干预后DAS分数存在统计学上的显著差异。研究参与者在干预前DAS的平均得分是107.09（标准差 = 11.85），干预后积极且显著地变为121.82（标准差 = 10.38）。DAS子领域“舒适度”（P = 0.002）和“知识”（P = 0.01），以及二十个DAS项目中的十一个从干预前到干预后发生了积极且具有统计学意义的转变。访谈的IPA产生了五个主要主题和五个次要主题，支持了测量的统计结果。结论。医学生参与与ADRD患者的诗歌工作坊对他们的态度有积极影响。
