Resilience in allied health undergraduate education: a scoping review
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2025
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Arruzza, E.
Chau, M.
Van Kessel, G.
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Disability and Rehabilitation, 2025; 47(3):585-591
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Purpose: Students of allied health disciplines deal with daily challenges. Without methods to mitigate stress, a decline in academic and clinical performance may result. This scoping review aims to examine the current evidence for the efficacy of interventions for enhancing resilience for allied health students.
Materials and Methods: Medline, Emcare and Cochrane Library were systematically searched for literature published until October 2022. The search included Quantitative studies which employed a pre-post or controlled study design to evaluate an intervention to improve resilience for university students in medical radiation, pharmacy, optometry, physiotherapy and podiatry. Screening and data extraction was conducted independently by two reviewers. Critical appraisal was conducted using Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical appraisal tools. Seven studies were included.
Results: A range of resilience interventions were discovered in terms of the frequency and duration, method of implementation including didactic and online learning. Statistically significant findings were found in most controlled trials and pre-post studies. Interventions to enhance resilience are effective within allied health curriculum.
Conclusions: The evidence that resilience can be significantly influenced by an intervention suggests that stakeholders should spend more time on designing and piloting interventions within their context. Future research should look to assess longer term and clinical related outcomes.
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Copyright 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)