Initial Validation of a Patient-Reported Compassion Measure in a Mandarin-Speaking Long-Term Care Patient Population.

Compassion is increasingly considered essential to quality nursing care and is a concept that is strongly embedded across cultures, including Chinese culture. The Patient Compassion Model (PCM) depicts the unique yet overlapping domains of compassion. The Sinclair Compassion Questionnaire (SCQ) was directly developed and validated from this empirical model.

Compassion in healthcare: an updated scoping review of the literature.

Background: A previous review on compassion in healthcare (1988-2014) identified several empirical studies and their limitations. Given the large influx and the disparate nature of the topic within the healthcare literature over the past 5 years, the objective of this study was to provide an update to our original scoping review to provide a current and comprehensive map of the literature to guide future research and to identify gaps and limitations that remain unaddressed.

Methods: Eight electronic databases along with the grey literature were searched to identify empirical studies published between 2015 and 2020.

Program Leaders' and Educators' Perspectives on the Factors Impacting the Implementation and Sustainment of Compassion Training Programs: A Qualitative Study.

Phenomenon: Training programs have been used to improve compassion in healthcare, but the factors necessary to make such programs successful and sustainable have not been identified. This thematic analysis aimed to bridge the gap between theory and practice by drawing on the experiences of international leaders and educators of compassion training programs to develop a clear understanding of what is relevant and effective and how compassion training is implemented and sustained.

Approach: International leaders and educators of compassion training programs (N = 15) were identified through convenience sampling based on academic and gray literature searches.

What works for whom in compassion training programs offered to practicing healthcare providers: a realist review.

Background: Patients and families want their healthcare to be delivered by healthcare providers that are both competent and compassionate. While compassion training has begun to emerge in healthcare education, there may be factors that facilitate or inhibit the uptake and implementation of training into practice. This review identified the attributes that explain the successes and/or failures of compassion training programs offered to practicing healthcare providers.

Implementing compassion in pediatric healthcare: A qualitative study of Canadian patients', parents', and healthcare providers' perspectives.

Background: Compassion has received significant scholarly attention over the past decade. Research has been largely theoretical, with interventions focused on self-care practices of healthcare providers (HCPs), rather than implementation at a systems level. This study aimed to identify how compassion can be operationalized within pediatric healthcare.

Development and validation of a patient-reported measure of compassion in healthcare: the Sinclair Compassion Questionnaire (SCQ).

Objectives: Compassion is a key indicator of quality care that is reportedly eroding from patients' care experience. While the need to assess compassion is recognised, valid and reliable measures are lacking. This study developed and validated a clinically informed, psychometrically rigorous, patient-reported compassion measure.

What Is the State of Compassion Education? A Systematic Review of Compassion Training in Health Care.

Purpose: To investigate the current state and quality of compassion education interventions offered to health care providers during training or practice, determine how the components of each education intervention map onto the domains of an empirically based clinical model of compassion, and identify the most common approaches to compassion education.

Method: The MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL Plus with Full Text, Sociological Abstracts, Web of Science, ERIC, and Education Research Complete databases were searched from inception to March 2020 in this systematic review. Studies that evaluated a compassion education intervention for health care providers or those in training to enhance compassion toward patients and/or families were included.

A Practical Guide for Item Generation in Measure Development: Insights From the Development of a Patient-Reported Experience Measure of Compassion.

Background And Purpose: Although various measure development guidelines exist, practical guidance on how to systematically generate items is nascent. This article provides practical guidance on item generation in measure development and the use of a Table of Specifications (TOS) in this process.

Methods: In addition to a review of the literature, the item generation process within an ongoing study to develop a valid and reliable patient-reported measure of compassion is provided.

Initial Validation of a Patient-Reported Measure of Compassion: Determining the Content Validity and Clinical Sensibility among Patients Living with a Life-Limiting and Incurable Illness.

Background: Although compassionate care is considered a cornerstone of quality palliative care, there is a paucity of valid and reliable measures to study, assess, and evaluate how patients experience compassion/compassionate care in their care.

Objective: The aim was to develop a patient-reported compassion measure for use in research and clinical practice with established content-related validity evidence for the items, question stems, and response scale.

Methods: Content validation for an initial 109 items was conducted through a two-round modified Delphi technique, followed by cognitive interviews with patients.

A Randomized Crossover Trial of Conventional versus Modified "Koch" Chest Compressions in a Height-Restricted Aeromedical Helicopter.

Low overhead height can negatively affect chest compression performance. An adapted compression technique has been proposed by paramedic H. Koch (pron.

Sleep and Exercise in Emergency Medicine Residents: An Observational Pilot Study Exploring the Utility of Wearable Activity Monitors for Monitoring Wellness.

Introduction Burnout is well-documented in residents and emergency physicians. Wellness initiatives are becoming increasingly prevalent, but there is a lack of data supporting their efficacy. In some populations, a relationship between sleep, exercise, and wellness has been documented; however, this relationship has not been established in emergency medicine (EM) residents or physicians.

Assessing the credibility and transferability of the patient compassion model in non-cancer palliative populations.

Background: A lack of evidence and psychometrically sound measures of compassion necessitated the development of the first known, empirically derived, theoretical Patient Compassion Model (PCM) generated from qualitative interviews with advanced cancer inpatients. We aimed to assess the credibility and transferability of the PCM across diverse palliative populations and settings.

Methods: Semi-structured, audio-recorded qualitative interviews were conducted with 20 patients with life-limiting diagnoses, recruited from 4 settings (acute care, homecare, residential care, and hospice).

Medical students' perspectives of their clinical comfort and curriculum for acute pain management.

Objectives: Acute pain is a common presenting complaint in health care. Yet, undertreatment of pain remains a prevailing issue that often results in poor short- and long-term patient outcomes. To address this problem, initiatives to improve teaching on pain management need to begin in medical school.