RT Journal Article
T1 Changes in Resilience in Students of Occupational Therapy After Their First Exposure to Practice Placement Education.
A1 Rodríguez-Martínez, María Del Carmen
A1 Toledano-González, Abel
A1 Triviño-Juárez, José-Matías
A1 Polonio-López, Begoña
A1 Segura-Fragoso, Antonio
A1 López-Martín, Olga
A1 Cantero-Garlito, Pablo
A1 Rodríguez-Hernández, Marta
A1 Corregidor-Sánchez, Ana-Isabel
A1 Romero-Ayuso, Dulce
K1 clinical practice
K1 college student
K1 occupational therapy
K1 personal development
K1 resilience (psychological)
AB Introduction: Resilience is a multidimensional and dynamic construct associated with positive growth and the capacity to transform stressful and negative factors into opportunities of personal development and self-improvement when faced with difficult experiences. The resilience process of each individual integrates multiple analysis levels, which range from genetic-environmental interactions to a complex process of adaptation between the individual and his/her family, friends, co-workers, society, and culture. Objective: To determine whether resilience improves in students of occupational therapy when exposed for the first time to practice placement education. Methodology: Quasi-experimental, prospective, observational, multi-center study with a sample composed of students from the Degree of Occupational Therapy of the public universities of Málaga (UMA) and Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) (Spain). Two weeks prior to the beginning of the practice education period, the participants completed a questionnaire that included sociodemographic data and the area of their internships. They were also given the Spanish version of the Connor-Davidson's resilience scale (CD-RISC). All these instruments were also completed 1 week after the end of the clinical practice. Results: There were statistically significant differences between the variables that make up resilience and the different internship areas. On the other hand, there was a significant improvement of global resilience after the clinical practice period, in both women (13.85 points; p
SN 1664-1078
YR 2021
FD 2021-05-07
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/17839
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/17839
LA en
DS RISalud
RD Apr 8, 2025