Yes / Paramedics play a vital role in the emergency health care of people living with dementia. People with dementia often have complex needs, posing challenges for paramedics.
Paramedics often lack the confidence and skills to assess people with dementia appropriately and receive little, if any, dementia education.
Aims: To evaluate the impact of dementia education on student paramedics preparedness to care, knowledge, confidence, and attitudes towards dementia.
Methods: A 6-hour education programme on dementia was developed, implemented, and evaluated. A pre-test-post-test design using self-completion validated questionnaires was used to evaluate first year undergraduate student paramedics knowledge, confidence, and attitudes, towards dementia, as well as their preparedness to care for people with dementia.
Results: Forty-three paramedic students attended the education programme with forty-one fully completed questionnaires being collected pre-training and thirty-two post-training. Students reported feeling significantly more preparedness to care for people with dementia after the education session (p / Funded by College of Paramedics, Research Grant Scheme / Research Development Fund Publication Prize Award winner, Feb 2023.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/19329 |
| Date | 07 February 2023 |
| Creators | Jones, Danielle K., Capstick, Andrea, Faisal, Muhammad, Frankland, Joe |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Accepted manuscript |
| Rights | © 2023 College of Paramedics. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy., Unspecified |
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