Introduction: The term second victim arises when a healthcare professional experiences an adverse event that has an emotional impact and/or physical suffering for the healthcare professional. The experiences of the second victim can be measured using the Second Victim Experience and Support Tool, originally developed in English, translated and validated internationally in several languages. A revised version of the tool (Second Victim Experience and Support Tool-Revised) has been published since 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To analyze the medical students' perception about simulated consultations before and after training using the SPIKES protocol.
Methods: Quasi-experimental study, with a qualitative approach. It counted with the participation of 20 students as Simulated Physicians (SF), and 20 students as Simulated Patients (SP), all belonging to a medical course.
Men's mental health has been severely affected during the COVID-19 pandemic, with many studies focussing on the determinants of men's psychological distress. This study aimed at examining the relationships between mindfulness, environmental mastery (EM), purpose in life (PL) and indicators of psychological distress (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe aimed to determine the prevalence of anxiety and to identify associated factors among multi-professional residents in Brazil during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional study included a sample of 752 multi-professional residents selected by snowball technique. Symptoms of anxiety were measured by the Beck anxiety inventory scale (≥ 16 cut-off).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Health-related quality of life is frequently used as an outcome measure that improves the quality of care. The SF-36 and RAND-36 were derived from the Medical Outcomes Study.
Objective: The present study aimed to validate the RAND-36 in Brazil, in healthy individuals and patients with liver disease.
Background: COVID-19 pandemic caused increased workload and stress for health professionals involved in the care of such patients. We aimed to describe the health-related quality of life, and burnout in frontline physicians diagnosed with anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted during the first-wave phase of COVID-19, from September to October 2020.
Introduction: The practice of unnecessary conduct and waste in Health is an important topic, not often addressed during undergraduate training. Medical education has a fundamental role in student and doctors' training concerning cost-conscious attitudes for good health care. The aim of this study was to describe and assess the implementation of the Choosing Wisely campaign within a General Surgery residency program.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The 36-Item Short Form Health Survey questionnaire (SF-36) is a widely used instrument for evaluating health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL). The psychometric validation of the SF-36 version 2.0 (SF-36v2) in HIV-infected patients had not yet conducted in Brazil.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Training in the use of cost-conscious strategies for medical students may prepare new physicians to deliver health care in a more sustainable way. Recently, a role-modeling cost-conscious behaviors scale (RMCCBS) was developed for assessing students' perceptions of their teachers' attitudes to cost consciousness. We aimed to translate the RMCCBS into Brazilian Portuguese, adapt the scale, transculturally, and validate it.
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