作者:Lindsey Fiori和Ryan Clark
CHS贡献者

莫莉·泰勒，MS, LAT, ATC, a 康复与健康科学 博士研究生，研究助理, 收到了$2,500 grant from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association 研究 & Education Foundation for an intervention study on emotional intelligence (EI) and 倦怠 in healthcare profession (HCP) students.

“My research is an exploration of emotional intelligence in healthcare profession students, specifically its relationship to 倦怠 and well-being,泰勒谈到这项研究时说, 题为, An Emotional Intelligence Educational Intervention to Reduce Burnout in Healthcare Profession Students: A Pilot Study. “I’m seeking to call attention to this crucial aspect of human intelligence that often isn’t adequately addressed in curricula for most healthcare professions.”

在她的研究中, EI is defined as a multi-dimensional construct involving an individual’s ability to perceive, 使用, 理解, 调节情绪, 包括自己和他人, and constructively integrate those abilities to enhance cognition and manage environmental demands and stressors. 情商是先天行为和后天行为的混合体, 情感和逻辑的平衡, 这是一种可以培养的技能, 她说. 泰勒的导师是约翰娜·霍克，ATC博士.

“I was initially drawn to this realm of research early in my clinical and teaching career as a certified athletic trainer,泰勒说. “Healthcare work at its very core is emotionally and socially demanding and complex; I recognized a persistent flaw in students’ comfort and ability to socially connect and 理解 basic tenets of human needs and emotions, 包括他们自己! I want to highlight the potential impact that higher emotional intelligence can have on healthcare students, 医疗服务提供者, and their patients and devise novel pedagogical strategies to improve EI and enhance its clinical translatability. 为了我的论文, I foc使用d my efforts on exploring the impact that enhanced EI can have on HCP student well-being and 倦怠 prevalence.”

The primary study of her dissertation was the implementation of an emotional intelligence educational intervention for UK graduate HCP students. The intervention was a workshop and four-week guided reflection practice funded by grants from the National Athletic Trainers' Association 研究 and Education Foundation and the UK Endowed University Professor in Health Sciences Fund.

“Years of research allowed me to craft a novel experience for our students, combining evidence-based content and activities with an amplified focus on the physiological mechanisms behind the recommended EI-enhancing practices,”她说。. “We've all heard emotional and social skills referred to as ‘soft skills;’ my workshop challenges this diminishing statement, highlighting interdisciplinary research findings that demonstrate changes in brain connectivity or reductions in physiological stress markers from practices as simple as naming your emotions. Students who attended the October workshop were offered findings and practices related to self-awareness, 社会连通性, 和正念 and interacted in group activities including a silent disco and blinded mindful eating challenge.”

She said students then engaged in four weeks of critical reflections via guided prompts designed to embody the workshop’s learning outcomes.

“在数据方面, 我们正在评估情商的变化, 倦怠, 和正念, all captured via survey instruments at multiple time points throughout the study duration, as well as qualitative data themed from students’ subjective learning experiences,泰勒说. “我正忙着分析数据, 完成我的论文, 为三月份的辩护做准备, 在那里我有机会分享我的发现.”

泰勒说 健康科学学院 has prepared her by teaching her how to explore these kinds of topics.  

“The CHS RHB doctoral program has quite literally transformed me into a researcher,”她说。. “While I entered this program with an incredible research foundation from my graduate career at the University of Oregon working with Dr. 优雅的金色, my education here has equipped me with the necessary skillset to confidently attack my research questions as a primary investigator. Learning from a multidisciplinary faculty is a really special way to gain an 理解ing of mixed methods research and appreciate different perspectives under the umbrella of health sciences.”

她赞扬了她的论文委员会, as well as the professors in the Sports Medicine 研究 Institute and Hoch, 她的导师.

“The most rewarding part of this piece of my research journey is the responses that I’ve received from the students,”她说。. “研讨会本身就是一个高潮时刻, 经过几个月的研究, 准备, 和期待, and it was such a pleasure to share that time and space with the students who participated.

“然而, receiving thanks and reading the students’ comments about the positive and lasting impact the workshop/reflection practice has had on them has been absolute magic,她接着说. “这项研究改变了我的职业生涯, leading me into this exciting space where I hope to live and breathe the prioritization of well-being and connection, 聚焦情商, and influence the way we educate and prepare our HCP students.”