A European evaluation of the patients' role in clinical education : A six-country cross sectional study ...

• Main Authors: Koskinen, Sanna, Leino-Kilpi, Helena, Blöndal, Katrín, Brasaitė-Abromė, Indrė, Burke, Eimear, Fitzgerald, Serena, Fuster, Pilar, Kielė, Viktorija, Löyttyniemi, Eliisa, Salminen, Leena, Stubner, Juliane, Suikkala, Arja
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt 2022
• Subjects: 610; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/101464; https://opendata.uni-halle.de//handle/1981185920/103422

Aim: The aim of this study was to analyse the patients’ role in clinical education in terms of facilitative student-patient relationship in Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania and Spain and factors promoting a more facilitative relationship in clinical education. Background: Nursing students’ bedside learning is reliant on patients and the establishment of a person-centred approach develops from the relationships with patients. Design: A multi-country, cross-sectional design was implemented. Methods: Survey data were collected from graduating nursing students and patients between May 2018 and March 2019. The survey consisted of a 13-item facilitative sub-scale of the Student-Patient Relationship Scale as the main outcome measure, which was identical for both populations. In addition, background factors were surveyed with single questions and other scales. Associations between facilitative relationship and background factors were studied with linear models. Results: Altogether, 1796 students and ...