M.A. / This research aimed to design and develop an intervention that would maximise the coping resources of doctors working with trauma patients at Johannesburg General Hospital. Intervention Research methodology was used in order to achieve this objective. The study was divided in to three phases, namely, Diagnosis, Feedback and Discussion and Evaluation. The initial intervention comprised the Diagnostic as well as the Feedback and Discussion phase. The findings from the Diagnostic phase suggested that the doctors who had been working in the unit for less than three months, as well as the doctors who had less than four years medical practice experience, were most likely to show areas of vulnerability. This vulnerability related to their under-use of coping resources accompanied by elevated negative mood states, as identified by the Coping Resource Inventory and the Profile of Mood States questionnaire respectively. Other groups of doctors that shared this vulnerability included interns, medical officers, females and single doctors. The Feedback and Discussion phase brought to light themes relating to the stressors that the doctors’ experience in their work context. These themes along with the results of the Evaluation phase where used in order to re-design the Intervention for future use with doctors working with trauma patients. The findings from the Evaluation phase also confirmed that the doctors found the intervention to be beneficial.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uj/uj:14606 |
| Date | 06 November 2008 |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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