Road to resilience is paved with good intentions

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Ewais, T
Teodorczuk, A
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2021
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Background: Resilience has been described as the ability to respond to stress in a healthy way so that goals are achieved at minimal psychological and physical cost (Epstein and Krasner, 2013). Resilience has, therefore, been identified as a vital component in enhancing quality of care and sustainability of the healthcare workforce, with burgeoning interest in organisations to develop resilience-building interventions.

Objectives: To present an evidence-based overview of resilience and therapeutic interventions aimed at developing resilience. We will present findings from our research project for building resilience in Griffith medical students and outline controversies in conceptualisation of resilience and the impact of interventions targeting resilience (Joyce et al., 2018).

Methods: Methods include (i) narrative review of the literature on resilience, well-being and burnout in pre- and post-qualification settings and (ii) evaluation of a bottom-up intervention to improve medical student resilience at Griffith University. Measures include resilience levels (CD-10) along with a number of other indices of psychosocial functioning evaluated in a pretest post-test manner.

Findings: We found that resilience can be used as an effective intervention in healthcare and education settings as well as an over-simplistic solution for all individual, educational and healthcare systems issues (Balme et al., 2015; Launer, 2015; Teodorczuk et al., 2017; Thistlethwaite, 2018). Our quantitative analyses of pre- and post-resilience scores and qualitative appraisal of the impact of the student bundle intervention highlight its benefits and future research directions.

Conclusions: Our findings shed light on educational well-being approaches aimed at preventing and promoting resilience and managing those with high levels of distress or burnout.

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

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55

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1_suppl

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Biomedical and clinical sciences

Psychology

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Life Sciences & Biomedicine

Psychiatry

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Ewais, T; Teodorczuk, A, Road to resilience is paved with good intentions, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2021, 55 (1_suppl), pp. 75-76