Dissertation
Teacher, be gentle with yourself: an experimental study of a one-session, online self-compassion workshop for nursing and health professions clinical educators
Doctor of Health Science (D.H.Sc.), Drexel University
May 2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/00002024
Abstract
Creating and maintaining a culture of compassionate-focused healthcare stems from nurturing providers' self-compassion set forth by their self-compassionate clinical instructors. In higher education, instructor self-compassion is not a priority. Intentional self-kindness, interconnected with the universality of human suffering, is the wellspring for compassionate care and makes it possible. Educator self-compassion should then be an essential component of teachers' instructional methods and adult learner-centered frameworks -- known as pedagogy and andragogy, respectively -- to prepare future nurses and healthcare professionals for field entry, and advanced and specialized direct-care roles. Therefore, this doctoral research employed an experimental design with intervention and control group to better understand clinical educator self-compassion. Data from three distributions of the 26-item Self-Compassion Scale across two independent groups were analyzed using the Mann Whitney U test. It was hypothesized that the workshop-as-intervention participants would demonstrate increased self-compassion levels seven-days after the workshop and sustain these levels when retested 30-days post-baseline testing. It was also hypothesized the experimental group's post-intervention levels would be significantly higher than non-intervention workshop subjects. While the experimental group did maintain levels between days seven and 30, the other hypotheses were not supported by statistical testing. The most meaningful finding was that the workshop-as-intervention group demonstrated statistically significant and moderately lower measurements in over-identification 30 days after their initial pre-workshop tests, the most common negative component rated by both groups in baseline testing. In the future this study will be replicated for further use and wider impact.
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Details
- Title
- Teacher, be gentle with yourself
- Creators
- Michele Rattigan
- Contributors
- Anne Marie Nixon Dower (Advisor) - Drexel University, Health Sciences
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Health Science (D.H.Sc.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- xi, 132 pages
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Nursing and Health Professions; Drexel University; Health Sciences
- Other Identifier
- 991021880014304721