Inês Rosendo (Portugal)
Faculdade de Medicina Universidade de Coimbra
USF Coimbra Centro
- General and Family Medicine (GFM) specialist since July 2010 presently working as a half time GP in USF Coimbra Centro, in Portugal, also as a coordinator of this team. - Author and co-author of several posters and oral presentations in regional, national and international congresses and has several papers published in national and international journals. - In 2011 completed a masters in Sports Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine of Coimbra’s University, about phisical exercise counseling for diabetics in general practise. In 2017 completed a phD about giving information to people with diabets in primary care setting, in Coimbra’s University in Medical Sciences. Presently working as an assistant at Coimbra University's Faculty of Medicine. - Part of the Portuguese Medical Order, coordinating the regional group on training and continuous development. Part of the direction of Mental Health Studies Portuguese Society and part of the primary care group of Portuguese Diabetes Society. - Coordinator of the Portuguese Instituto de Eneagrama Shalom and Enneagram Advanced Studies Group of Universidade Aberta, working as a facilitator of enneagram courses and conducting research on the subject.

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IMPACT OF SELF-AWARENESS IN STRESS, BURNOUT, SELF-COMPASSION AND COMPASSION IN MEDICAL STUDENTS - CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL

Session Name
MEDICAL STUDENT EDUCATION AND RESIDENCY TRAINING (ID 76)
Date
09.07.2021, Friday
Session Time
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Room
Hall 6
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Lecture Time
06:55 PM - 07:06 PM
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Background and purpose: Several studies revealed the impact of stress and burnout among the medical students’ community, with repercussions on students' quality of life and their levels of compassion and self-compassion. Thus, the aim of this work is to study whether the promotion of self-knowledge based on the Enneagram of Personalities has an impact on the levels of these variables, promoting the awareness of its importance and possible application in medical schools.

Methods: A sample of 48 medical students, before and after an intervention, answered an online questionnaire with 6 scales - Perceived Quality of Life (EQ-VAS), Perceived Stress (PSS), Burnout (MBI-SS), Self-Compassion (SELFCS), Compassion (CS), and Self-Reflection and Insight (SRIS). The intervention group, consisting of 24 volunteer participants, held a self-knowledge and communication course using the Enneagram of Personalities. The control group (24 volunteers) was recruited by matching sociodemographic variables with the intervention group. The data obtained was subjected to descriptive and inferential statistical analysis using the Wilcoxon and Mann-Whitney U tests, and to qualitative analysis of content analysis.

Results: There was a significant beneficial effect of this intervention in the Perceived Quality of Life (p=0.002), Perceived Stress (p=0.001), Self-Compassion (p=0.030) and its 2 subscales Isolation (p=0.016) and Overidentification (p=0.010), in the intervention group.

Conclusion: The results obtained in the present clinical trial suggest the beneficial effect of a self-knowledge intervention on quality of life, stress, burnout, self-compassion and compassion in medical students. Thus, this course could be a strategy to promote and maintain the mental health of medical students.

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