- Title
- Evaluating a peer-led wellbeing programme for doctors-in-training during the COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria, Australia, using the most significant change technique
- Creator
- Crinall, Karen; Ward, Madeleine; McDonald, Rebecca; Crinall, William; Aridas, James; Rolnik, Daniel
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/187954
- Identifier
- vital:17174
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1177/1035719X221080576
- Identifier
- ISSN:1035-719X (ISSN)
- Abstract
- This article discusses the use of the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique in a mixed-methods evaluation of a pilot wellbeing programme for obstetrics and gynaecology doctors-in-training introduced at a large public hospital during Melbourne, Australia’s second coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown, which occurred from 7 July to 26 October 2020. The evaluation was conducted remotely using videoconferencing technology, to conform with pandemic restrictions. MSC complemented the program’s participatory principles and was chosen because it seeks to learn about participants’ perceptions of programme impacts by evaluating their stories of significant change. Stakeholders select one story exemplifying the most significant change resulting from the evaluated program. Inductive thematic analysis of all stories is combined with reasons for making the selection, to inform learnings (Dart & Davies, 2003; Tonkin et al., 2021). Nine stories of change were included in the selection. The most significant change was a more supportive workplace culture brought about by enabling basic needs to be met and breaking down hierarchical barriers. This was linked to five interconnected themes – connection, caring, communication, confidence and cooperation. The evaluation learnings are explored and reflections on remotely conducting MSC evaluation are shared. © The Author(s) 2022.
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Relation
- Evaluation Journal of Australasia Vol. 22, no. 2 (2022), p. 90-107
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © The Author(s) 2022
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- MD Multidisciplinary; COVID-19 pandemic; Doctors-in-training; Healthcare programme evaluation; Most Significant Change technique; Pandemic kindness movement; Workplace wellbeing programmes; Zoom
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- Funder
- The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study is supported by Monash Health Foundation.
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