Understanding Australian medical student attitudes towards older people

Wilson, Mark; Kurrle, Susan; Wilson, Ian G

doi:10.1111/ajag.12495

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“…Understanding healthcare providers’ attitudes towards their patients are extremely important for developing educational interventions resulting in appropriate and equitable healthcare provision . This encompasses training healthcare providers to have an empathetic approach to all their patients, including the growing cohort of older adults .…”

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“…This encompasses training healthcare providers to have an empathetic approach to all their patients, including the growing cohort of older adults . Consequently, providers should be able to recognise their own ageist attitudes, if present, find ways to address them and reduce/eliminate their negative impacts …”

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“…11 Understanding healthcare providers' attitudes towards their patients are extremely important for developing educational interventions resulting in appropriate and equitable healthcare provision. [12][13][14] This encompasses training healthcare providers to have an empathetic approach to all their patients, including the growing cohort of older adults. 14 Consequently, providers should be able to recognise their own ageist attitudes, if present, find ways to address them and reduce/eliminate their negative impacts.…”

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“…14 Consequently, providers should be able to recognise their own ageist attitudes, if present, find ways to address them and reduce/eliminate their negative impacts. 12,15 In order to help recognise ageist thoughts and attitudes, many instruments have been developed to assess ageism among the public in general, [16][17][18] and also among healthcare professionals, [19][20][21][22][23] with the intent of guiding educational interventions to address ageism associated bias. Although ageism has shown to be prevalent among dental students, [24][25][26] only one ageism scale has been specifically developed for them (Ageism Scale For Dental Students-ASDS) and is currently validated for use in the United States (ASDS) 22,23 and Greece (ASDS-Gr).…”

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Translation and preliminary validation of an ageism scale for dental students in Brazil (ASDS‐Braz)

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Background and Objective Ageism is a major barrier for age‐appropriate care. The aim of this study was to translate and perform a preliminary validation of an ageism scale for dental students (ASDS) in Brazil (ASDS‐Braz). Methods The 27‐item original ageism scale was translated from English into Brazilian Portuguese. A panel of five Brazilian dental educators revised the scale to establish content validity. The translated version was completed by 156 dental students in the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil. Principal component analysis, internal consistency reliability and discriminant validity were estimated. Results All items in the Brazilian Portuguese version received a content validity index score ≥0.80 indicating that they were relevant to the topic. The principal component analysis produced a 12‐item scale with three components that accounted for 51% of the overall variance. The first component contained six items associated with a negative view of older adults; the second component contained three items dealing with the complexity of providing care for older adults; and the third component contained three items associated with a positive view of older people. Discriminant validity did not show any differences related to demographic factors, the semester of studies and history of living with older people. Conclusions The preliminary validation of the ASDS‐Braz produced a 12‐item scale with three components with acceptable validity and reliability. Future research in a larger, multi‐institutional sample is now warranted.

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“…This article outlines development of a new instrument for measurement of attitudes of Australian medical students towards older people. We previously reviewed the literature on what is known about these attitudes, identifying the need for a reliable and valid measure for use in Australian medical education . Importantly, we know health professional attitudes may influence clinical practice negatively, with a number of examples from the international literature showing the effects of ageism on health‐care delivery, including reluctance by some doctors to take on older patients’ care, provision of less information to older patients, especially older women, and less aggressive treatment options offered for the same condition in an older patient compared with someone younger .…”

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Development of the Australian Ageing Semantic Differential, a new instrument for measuring Australian medical student attitudes towards older people

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Objective This study outlines development of an instrument for measuring attitudes of medical students towards older people, the Australian Ageing Semantic Differential (AASD). Methods Words for AASD scales were derived from the reflections of 151 third year medical students attending two Australian medical schools. A pilot study of the AASD was then undertaken with third year students at another medical school to confirm usability and reliability of the instrument. After slight modification, a larger study using the AASD was then undertaken of medical students attending the three institutions, in order to obtain sufficient data for exploratory factor analysis. Results n = 321 (response rate 73%). Mean AASD score 73.2/114. Cronbach's α = 0.86. There was no evidence of sequence bias. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) demonstrated four factors: Instrumentality; Personal Appeal; Experience; and Sociability. A lower mean instrumentality subscore for all students and a higher mean experience subscore for female students were noted. Conclusions The AASD instrument proved internally reliable, and its use was generalisable to different groups of medical students. Its design ensured construct and face validity, and responses were not affected by sequencing bias. This study has revealed positive student attitudes towards older people. Variation in attitudes requires further investigation.

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Educating dental students to provide compassionate age friendly care for older adults

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2023

Journal of Dental Education

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As the world population ages, the need for age friendly care increases. In dentistry, age friendly care requires an appropriate comprehension of multiple factors that can be categorized in socio‐economic circumstances, systemic health problems, and oral health conditions. In addition to the understanding of these factors and its relationships among each other, the future dental workforce should also be aware of unconscious and pervasive societal stereotypical perception of older persons, aging, and being old, which results in ageism and ageist attitudes. Dental schools can play an important role on raising ageism awareness and combating ageism in healthcare, thus preparing the future of the dental workforce to provide compassionate age friendly care. This paper will discuss ageism in dental schools and learning strategies used to combat it and increase compassionate care delivery for older adults.

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Understanding Australian medical student attitudes towards older people

Abstract: Australian medical students' attitudes towards older people are mixed and not well understood based on quantitative measures developed for use in the US and on qualitative evidence. Future research in this area requires a reliable and locally-validated instrument.

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Translation and preliminary validation of an ageism scale for dental students in Brazil (ASDS‐Braz)

Translation and preliminary validation of an ageism scale for dental students in Brazil (ASDS‐Braz)

Development of the Australian Ageing Semantic Differential, a new instrument for measuring Australian medical student attitudes towards older people

Educating dental students to provide compassionate age friendly care for older adults

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