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Grant Application: Compassionate Touch Short Film, Jessfor Baugh, Riddhi Daftary
Grant Application: Compassionate Touch Short Film, Jessfor Baugh, Riddhi Daftary
Compassionate Touch
IPEC Mini-grant application for funding of UNE student project Compassionate Touch.UNE Dental Medicine students collaborated with Creative and Fine Arts faculty and Dental Medicine faculty to create the film Compassionate Touch, focusing on five stages associated with anxious dental patients, as depicted through artwork, interprofessional interviews and scholarly sources. The film highlights the current understanding and management of the dental needs for high fear patients before, during, and after their visit to the dentist, and how interprofessional health care providers can assist patients to achieve quality patient-centered care.