title: Effectiveness of Pediatric Palliative Care Education on Pediatric Clinicians.
abstract: A lack of knowledge and skills in pediatric palliative care may create hesitation in caring for children with serious life-threatening conditions and their families. Our research examined the effectiveness of pediatric palliative care training for pediatric clinicians. A pretest-posttest study provided educational training in pediatric palliative care to pediatric clinicians and used a pretest and a posttest to assess outcomes. Fifty pediatric clinicians attended this research with 83.3% response rate. After training, participants reported significantly increased confidence in a variety of areas, including providing emotional support to clinicians, personal knowledge, skills, and communication; ethical and legal concerns; and providing emotional support to dying children and their families. Results showed a significant main effect of training on confidence levels ( p < .000). This suggests that education can effectively boost pediatric clinicians' confidence regarding providing pediatric palliative care and therefore should regularly be provided to clinicians.
authors.affiliation: 1 College of Nursing, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Niang-Huei
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.affiliation: 2 Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua City, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Cheng-Han
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: 3 Buddhist Tzu-Chi General Hospital, Taichung City, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Min-Chun
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: 4 College of Nursing, China Medical University, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Li-Chi
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: 5 Department of Mathematics, Tmkang University, Taipei City, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Yue-Cune
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.affiliation: 6 Miller Children's Hospital Long Beach, CA, USA.|7 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Joetta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: DeSwarte-Wallace
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000072143:Pediatricians / Q000193:education* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000193:education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013624:Taiwan; D013663:Teaching / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000078329:Workforce
keywords: clinical education; confidence; nurses; pediatric palliative care; pediatricians