"Mindful vets": Mindfulness-based intervention to reduce academic stress in veterinary medicine
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14409/favecv.2024.23.e0031Keywords:
Mindfulness, Medicina Veterinaria, Estrés académico, Bienestar.Abstract
Academic stress is a widespread phenomenon in the first years of university, with the highest levels manifested around taking exams, academic overload, the exposure of work in class and difficulties in managing study time with everyday life. Currently, complementary strategies are available to the traditional psychopedagogical support for coping with these stressors. Mindfulness, with constant monitoring and practice, is associated with the development of emotional regulation skills, which help to produce conscious learning and therefore a potential individual and collective well-being of students. The present work consisted of implementing a workshop on mindfulness-based interventions in the curriculum of the second semester of the second year of Veterinary Medicine at the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, to allow students to manage academic stress by enhancing their emotional competencies. Likewise, the aim was to evaluate the feasibility, acceptance, and impact of a culturally adapted group intervention for university students of this career. The offer of this type of intervention could reduce psychological distress during university life.
References
Chust Hernández P y Tortajada Blanca FJ. 2019. Estrés académico en estudiantes universitarios de nuevo ingreso y su relación con la vía de acceso a la universidad. In IN-RED 2019. V Congreso de Innovación Educativa y Docencia en Red (pp. 684-698). Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València.
Dvorakova K, Kishida M, Li J, Elavsky S, Broderick PC, Agrusti MR, Greenberg MT. 2017. Promoting healthy transition to college through mindfulness training with first-year college students: Pilot randomized controlled trial. J. Am. Coll. Health 65: 259-267. DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2017.1278605
Felipe AE, Chiapparrone ML, Caselli A. 2023. Dominios de competencias básicas para la inclusión del enfoque Una Salud en el diseño curricular de medicina veterinaria. FAVE Sección Ciencias Veterinarias 22: e0020. DOI: 10.14409/favecv.2023.22.e0020
Galante J, Dufour G, Vainre M, Wagner AP, Stochl J, Benton A, Lathia N, Howarth E, Jones PB. 2018. A mindfulness-based intervention to increase resilience to stress in university students (the Mindful Student Study): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. Lancet Public Health, 2: 72–81. DOI:10.1016/S2468-2667(17)30231-1
Kabat-Zinn J. 2003. Mindfulness-based interventions in context: Past, present, and future. CLIN PSYCHOL-SCI PR , 10: 144-156. DOI:10.1093/clipsy.bpg016
Luna D, García-Reyes S, Soria-González EA, Avila-Rojas M, Ramírez-Molina V, García-Hernández B, Meneses-González F. 2020. Estrés académico en estudiantes de odontología: asociación con apoyo social, pensamiento positivo y bienestar psicológico. Investigación en educación médica, 9: 8-17.
Mota Rojas D, Orihuela A, Strappini Asteggiano A, Cajiao Pachón MN, Agüera Buendía E, Mora Medina P, ... Alonso Spilsbury M. 2018. Teaching animal welfare in veterinary schools in Latin America. International Journal of Veterinary Science and Medicine, 6: 131-140.
Nhat Hanh T y Weare K. 2019. Los educadores felices cambian el mundo, Barcelona: Kairos.
OMS (Organización Mundial de la Salud) Tripartite and UNEP support OHHLEP's definition of "One Health" Recuperado de https://www.who.int/news/item/01-12-2021-tripartite-and-unep-support-ohhlep-s-definition-of-one-health.
Reig A, Cabrero J, Ferrer R, Richart M. 2001. La calidad de vida y el estado de salud de los estudiantes universitarios. Alicante: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2001132: 304-316.
Segredo E. 2020. El enfoque Una Salud-Un Bienestar, en el abordaje integral de la violencia humano-animal. Calidad de Vida y Salud, 13(Especial): 220-254.
Tsouros AD. 2000. Health Promoting Universities: concept and strategy. En: U. Sonntag, S. Gräser, C. Stock, A. Krämer (Hrsg.). Gesundheitsfördernde Hochschulen. Konzepte, Strategien und Praxisbeispiele. Weinheim und München: Juventa Verlag: 15-24.
van Herten J, Meijboom FLB. 2019. Veterinary Responsibilities within the One Health Framework. Food Ethics 3:109–123. DOI:10.1007/s41055-019-00034-8
Verweij H, van Ravesteijn H, van Hooff M, Lagro P, Speckens A. 2018. Does Mindfulness Training Enhance the Professional Development of Residents? A Qualitative Study. Acad Med. 93:1335–1340. DOI:10.1097/ACM.0000000000002260
Zunino P. 2018. Historia y perspectivas del enfoque “Una Salud”. Veterinaria (Montevideo), 54: 46-51. DOI:10.29155/vet.54.210.8
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Agustina ROMANELLI, Ignacio CHEVES VILLEGAS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
FAVE Sección Ciencias Veterinarias ratifies the open access model, in which contents (in full) are available free to anyone in the internet. The costs of production and publication are not transfered to the authors. This policy intends to break social and economical barriers that generate inequities in the access to information, and for the publication of research results.
All articles can be accessed at http://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/FAVEveterinaria/issue/current/, under license Creative CommonsAtribución-NoComercial-Compartir Igual 4.0 Internacional.
