Palliative Care Attitudes Survey of Brazilian Medical Students, 2015

Divanise Suruagy Correia's study collected survey data from 134 final-year medical students at a Brazilian Federal University in 2015. The dataset likely contains responses to 37 Likert-type questions from an adapted version of the Physicians' End-of-Life Care Attitude Scale (PEAS). Results indicate student self-assessed competencies and attitudes towards palliative care and end-of-life communication.

Use Cases

• Analyze self-reported competency gaps in palliative care symptom management based on student survey responses.
• Model student attitudes towards end-of-life communication based on the importance ratings for curriculum inclusion.
• Investigate correlations between student demographics and anxiety about patient death using the collected participant data.

Strengths

• Dataset includes responses from 134 participants, providing a specific sample size.
• Survey instrument is specified as an adapted version of the validated PEAS scale.
• Results include specific percentages, such as 85.84% of students needing supervision to discuss treatment withdrawal.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from a single university in 2015, which may limit generalizability to other contexts or time periods.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Divanise Suruagy Correia via paperswithcode

Collection Method

Quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study using a survey instrument.

Time Range

2015

Geography

Brazil (a Federal University)