Abstract
We held an Advance Care Planning (ACP) training session for medical and nursing care workers. We aimed to clarify their attitudes and behavioral changes regarding ACP after the session.
In March 2022, we held an online ACP training session for medical and nursing care workers in A city, Osaka Prefecture. We conducted an anonymous questionnaire survey on the day of the workshop and 3 months later regarding the participants’ attitudes toward ACP and the practice of ACP for themselves, their patients, and their patients’ caregivers. There were 40 participants in the ACP workshop. Twenty-eight participants answered the questionnaire, of whom 21 (75 %) were female. Fifteen (53.6 %) were care managers, six (21.4 %) were helpers, and four (14.3 %) were nurses. Ten (35.7 %) were “not familiar” with ACP, and 18 (64.3 %) were practicing ACP with their patients or caregivers. In the survey conducted 3 months after the workshop, 18 participants (64.3 % response rate) replied, of whom six participants (33.3 %) had practiced ACP with their patients or caregivers after the workshop. ACP training sessions for medical and nursing care workers resulted in behavioral changes that led to an increase in ACP practice by about 30 %. These findings suggest that ACP training sessions are effective in spreading ACP practice.
