Value of psychological counseling for trainees exposed to the death of a patient in emergency and resuscitation departments

Abstract

IntroductionTrainee emergency and resuscitation technicians are not prepared during their academic training to deal with their psychological reactions to the death of a patient, we wanted to describe their feelings and understand the aggravating factors and highlight the need for intervention.ObjectivesOur study aims to describe the psychological reactions of traineesexposed to the death of a patient on the internship grounds and to demonstrate the usefulness of specific psychological counselingMethodsIt is a prospective interventional study carried out with 2nd and 3rd-year students of the emergency and resuscitation section, our collection was done using a self-administered questionnaire with a validated PDI scale before the training, and a satisfaction questionnaire with the same scale after the training.ResultsOur population isyoung, with an averageage of 20.05 years, and ispredominantlyfemale, with a sex ratio of 0.12. Eighty-seven percent of the population statedthatthey were not prepared to deal with their feelings about the death of a patient, and thiseventharmed the quality of care for 68% of the students. According to the scores of the PDI scale in pre-training 77.33% of the students are at risk of developing PTSD, this percentage decreases to 30.67% according to the same scale in post-training.Conclusionsit is important to take into consideration the suffering of traineesexposed to traumaticevents such as the death of patients and to prepare them psychologically to deal with these situationsDisclosureNo significant relationships.