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"Being Human" - The Biopsychosocial model: from the osteopathic students’ perspective. A qualitative study.

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Title: "Being Human" - The Biopsychosocial model: from the osteopathic students’ perspective. A qualitative study.
Author(s): Membride, A
Abstract: Background: The use of the Biopsychosocial model has been shown to be the most promising framework to incorporate the multitude of contributing factors that influence patient outcome. Its use in medical school may produce competent healthcare providers to meet the challenge of chronic illnesses. Despite the BPS model and its relationship to pain and illness being taught as part of the osteopathic curriculum and being part of the five osteopathic models recognized by the World Health Organization, evidence for its clinical application, especially at an undergraduate level, is lacking. Objectives: the study aims to understand final year undergraduate osteopathic students’, lived experience, understanding and challenges in the application of the BPS model. Design: A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. Participants were sampled purposively for their application of the BPS model in practice. Analysis of data used a phenomenological approach to capture each individual experience in the context they were lived. Results: Data analysis resulted in the identification of the following themes: a) Body & Mind, b) Normalizing, c) Empowerment, d) Practitioner as a person, e) Modern thinking. Two further themes were constructed to reflect participants uncertainties, challenges and reflections: f) Reservations in the teaching approach, g) Emotional intelligence. Two central concepts were built: 1) Using the model to understand patients and empower them to deal with their pain and suffering, 2) Uncertainty in the curriculum and reflections on a way forward. A number of sub-themes were identified, the details of which are presented later in this report. Conclusion: Participants used the model to consider the patient as a whole and understand their personal experience of pain and the factors influencing it. Participants considered the model as an integral part of osteopathy and therapeutic interaction. Participants were aware of the stigma surrounding mental health and asking for help, sometimes breeding uncertainties about how to approach these issues. The implementation of the model in the curriculum was recognized to be incomplete and the psychology course, more of an overview than about conditions than how to deal with the individual suffering with one or more of those conditions. Learning emotional intelligence and introducing practicality in the teaching was talked about to improve undergraduate teaching.
presented at: European School of Osteopathy
Date Accepted: 2020
Date Submitted: 28.10.2020 18:08:19
Type: osteo_thesis
Language: English
Submitted by:: 62
Pub-Identifier: 16678
Inst-Identifier: 1229
Keywords: Osteopathy, biopsychosocial model, challenges, undergraduate students, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.
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Membride, A, “"Being Human" - The Biopsychosocial model: from the osteopathic students’ perspective. A qualitative study.”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed April 29, 2024, https://www.osteopathic-research.com/s/orw/item/177