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Passage Meditation Improves Caregiving Self-efficacy among Health Professionals

A Randomized Trial and Qualitative Assessment

Doug Oman

University of California, Berkeley, USA, DougOman{at}post.Harvard.edu

T. Anne Richards

University of California, San Francisco, USA

John Hedberg

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA

Carl E. Thoresen

Stanford University, USA

Relational caregiving skills remain seldom studied in health professionals. We evaluated effects on health professional relational caregiving self-efficacy from an eight-week, 16-hour training in self-management tools. Physicians, nurses, chaplains, and other health professionals were randomized after pretest to treatment (n = 30) or waiting list (n = 31). Training used a previously researched program of Easwaran (1991/1978) derived from spiritual wisdom traditions. Changes were measured using a 34-item caregiving self-efficacy scale. Positive effects were observed at posttest, eight- and 19-week follow-up (ds = .38, .47, .37, all ps < .05), and were mediated by adherence to practices and stress reductions (p < .05), findings also obtained in qualitative interviews (n = 24). Evidence suggests this program enhances health professional caregiving self-efficacy, and may merit inclusion in training curricula.

Key Words: mediators • self-efficacy • spirituality • spiritual modeling • stress

Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 13, No. 8, 1119-1135 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1359105308095966
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