Empathy, Well-Being, Psychological
Conditions
Brief summary
The study aims to measure the empathic capacity of healthcare professionals belonging to the Alessandria Hospital, by applying validated measuring instruments, before and after a specific training intervention. The secondary objective is to assess how the training initiative impacts on subjects with a different attitude towards cultural participation.
Detailed description
The aim of this project is to identify how a medical humanities intervention can act on the empathic capacity of carers through culture. One of the aims is to introduce an additional element to overcome the problems about language, prejudices, legitimisation by stakeholders who do not yet recognise the value and importance of projects promoting the relationship between culture, wellbeing and health. Verba Curant is aimed at generating cultural value, with the hope that it can unite the different professional fields involved and become the heritage of the community. The project of the Alessandria Hospital Centre in collaboration with the Holden School intends to launch a series of actions aimed at promoting the beneficial impact of culture, in particular storytelling, on the caregivers and patients of the Alessandria Hospital in order to measure how much cultural enjoyment can impact on health literacy. It is planned to define a methodological tool useful for making care workers aware of the importance of culture and dialogue with patients, as well as being able to measure their degree of literacy. The tool will be the object of a widespread training action on care workers, which will also involve all the stakeholders involved in the transmission of health information to patients.
Interventions
OTHERTraining about storytelling and creative writing: 12 hours
Participants in training courses on creative writing and storytelling.
OTHERTraining only about theoretical narrative medicine: 4 hours
Participants in training courses on only theoretical narrative medicine.
Sponsors
Compagnia di San Paolo
Scuola Holden Contemporary Humanities
Azienda Ospedaliera SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Health professionals related to the Alessandria Hospital
Exclusion criteria
* none
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Empatic capacity | Before the intervention (Baseline/T0) and immediately after the intervention (Final/T1) | Assessment of the empathic capacity of health workers through the Jefferson of Empathy scale in two groups (treated and controls). |
| Wellbeing | Before the intervention (Baseline/T0) and immediately after the intervention (Final/T1) | Assessment of the wellbeing level of health workers through the PGWBI questionnaire in two groups (treated and controls). |
Countries
Italy
Outcome results
None listed