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ASSESSMENT OF SATISFACTION WITH A JOURNAL CLUB PROGRAM IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY STUDENTS.

Eva María Navarrete-Muñoz1 (enavarrete@umh.es); Iris Juarez-Leal1; Cristina Espinosa-Sempere1; Paula Peral-Gómez1; Alicia Sánchez-Pérez1; Miriam Hurtado-Pomares1; Desirée Valera-Gran1

1Occupational Therapy Research Team (Grupo InTeO) Pathology and Surgery Department. Miguel Hernandez university (SPAIN)

Funding obtained of Vice-Rector's Office for Studies of Miguel Hernández University for their financial support (Programa de Innovación Educativa Universitaria de la Universidad Miguel Hernández: PIEU/2019/49)

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Introduction

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Academic programs of bachelor/master in OT have incorporated scientific skills training ( Cameron, 2005)

European Higher Education Area has a substantial chance to lead vital changes in the learning-teaching process (Bonsón, 2005)

Occupational therapist need improve the scientific skills to provide to their patients clinical decision based on evidence.

Participants reported limited engagement in conducting research studies, although the majority of the participants reported implementing the findings of research into their clinical practice to some extent (Lyons, 2011)

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Journal club

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Journals clubs are considered an interesting teaching/learning resources to develop scientific skills.

94% of the included studies reported improvement in skills, knowledge, or behavior about evidence-based practice.

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Journal club in Occupational Therapy

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Online journal club to enhance fieldwork educator competency in support of students experiential learning.

To date, Journal Clubs are rarely introduced in the undergraduate and master students training.

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Purpose:

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The purpose of this conference paper is to describe the development and implementation of a Journal Club for bachelor/master OT students. Moreover, we display the results of the level of satisfaction and motivation for attending this type of research initiatives in the students who participated in this education innovation and research project.

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Methodology

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Virtual journal club of 90 minutes

2019-2020

The announcement of participant recruitment was published on the notice board of the OT degrees

Bachelor students could apply for transversal and professional competences credits validation (1 ECTS) presenting the certificate in the university services

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The program included:

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Assignment previously to meet session:

  • Read the manuscript.
  • Read support materials.
  • Briefly summary of the manuscript.
  • PICO question (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome)
  • Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP, CASPe) checklists or reporting guidelines of network EQUATOR or COSMIN

90 minutes of virtual journal session.

Sessions

Type of publication

Reference

Day 1

Systematic Review and meta-analysis

Liu Z, et al. Mindfulness training for psychological stress in family caregivers of persons with dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Clin Interv Aging. 2017 Sep 22;12:1521-1529. doi: 10.2147/CIA.S146213.

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Clinical trial

Petruseviciene D, et al. Effect of Community-Based Occupational Therapy on Health-Related Quality of Life and Engagement in Meaningful Activities of Women with Breast

Cancer. Occup Ther Int. 2018 Apr 17;2018:6798697. doi: 10.1155/2018/6798697

Day 3

Validation study

Gómez-Moreno SM, et al. Validation of the Spanish-language version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment as a screening test for cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis. Neurologia. 2020 Jan 23;S0213-4853(19)30149-5. doi: 10.1016/j.nrl.2019.11.006.

An example of one session is available on the following video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12QMFS43nB9xKRJAbHXg00-Q5aLq99G5c/view?usp=sharing

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At the end of the Journal Club, the students had to make a critical appraisal of one selected article in a written report

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The satisfaction was collected using the questions

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Questions

1. Rate on a scale from 1 (not at all satisfied) to 5 (very satisfied) the satisfaction level with the following aspects of the Journal Club:

  1. What is your degree of satisfaction with sessions?
  1. What is your degree of satisfaction with the previous assignment of the session?
  1. What is your degree of satisfaction with the written report of the critical appraisal at the end of sessions?
  1. What is your degree of satisfaction with the timetable of the sessions?
  1. What is your degree of satisfaction with the teachers who have attended the sessions?
  1. What is your degree of satisfaction with the materials that have been provided to you?
  1. What is your degree of satisfaction with the colleagues who have participated in the sessions?
  1. What is your overall degree of satisfaction with the innovation research program?

2. Rate on a scale from 1 (Extremely easy)

to 10 (Extremely difficult) the degree of difficulty with the innovation research program.

3. Rate on a scale from 1 (Not motivated) to 10 (Very motivated) your degree of motivation with the innovation research program.

Questions

4. How likely are you to recommend participating in Journal Club sessions to others?

5. Write a short text of the reasons why you would not recommend participating in Journal Club sessions to others

6. Write a short text of the reasons why you would recommend participating in Journal Club sessions to others

7. How likely are you to continue attending the Journal Club session on next occasions?

8. Do you think these types of activities can increase your interest in the practice of evidence-based occupational therapy?

9. Do you think that these types of activities reinforce knowledge acquired in the bachelor's or master's degree?

10. What you liked best about this activity was:

11. What can be improved regarding your experience at the Journal Club? Comment briefly below.

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Results

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  • nine students
    • 6 bachelor students
    • 3 master students
  • 89% women and the mean age was 21.3 years.
  • None of the participants had attended a course of statistics, epidemiology or evidence-based practice in occupational therapy in the previous year.

  • 22.2% of the students had attended a course of research methodology in the previous year.

Mean and standard deviation (SD) of rate on a scale from 1 (not at all satisfied) to 5 (very satisfied) the satisfaction level with the following aspects of the Journal Club:

Mean

SD

What is your degree of satisfaction with sessions?

4,77

0,44

What is your degree of satisfaction with the previous assignment of the session?

4,33

0,71

What is your degree of satisfaction with the written report of the critical appraisal at the end of sessions?

4,44

0,52

What is your degree of satisfaction with the timetable of the sessions?

4,78

0,44

What is your degree of satisfaction with the teachers who have attended the sessions?

5,00

0,00

What is your degree of satisfaction with the materials that have been provided to you?

4,78

0,44

What is your degree of satisfaction with the colleagues who have participated in the sessions?

4,89

0,33

What is your overall degree of satisfaction with the innovation research program?

4,78

0,44

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Results

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Figure 1. Difficulty (from 1 extremely easy to 10 extremely difficult) and motivation (from 1 not motivated to 10 very motivated) levels perceived by students participating in the Journal Club with the innovation research program.

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Conclusions

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Development and implementation of Journal Club in bachelor and master’s OT students.

Students were very satisfied and motivated with this activity.

Start new edition of the innovation program

Afterwards, we will be able to evaluate the changes in self-efficacy, skills and knowledge of evidence-based practice in OT students with a larger

sample size.

Implementation of session of Journal Club in bachelor in the 2020-2021 academic course.

Positive results of this education innovation and research project

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Acknowledgements

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The authors want to thank all the participating students for their involvement and collaboration in the project, and the funding obtained of Vice-Rector's Office for Studies of Miguel Hernández University for their financial support (Programa de Innovación Educativa Universitaria de la Universidad Miguel Hernández: PIEU/2019/49)

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The team of the project

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The students of the project

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Questions???

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You can send your questions to Eva María Navarete Muñoz (enavarrete@umh.es)