Measures
learning gain
The evaluation was carried out in the form of a self-constructed questionnaire consisting of three parts:1. Demographic and participation/program attendance data2. Satisfaction data3. Comparative Self-Assessment (CSA)Part two and three are a self-assessment by the participants.Part one comprised eight questions enquiring about demographic and participation data, as well as a free text field about previous experience with mindfulness.Part two comprised three Likert-based questions concerning course satisfaction – 1) Please rate your level of overall satisfaction with the course. 2) Would you recommend the course to other employees working in palliative care? 3) Please rate your level of overall satisfaction with the instructor ‘s way of teaching. 4) Do you plan to practice the exercises that you learned in the course? – and a free text field to address experiences, feelings, peculiarities, criticism and wishes (see Table Part three comprised 22 learning objectives that had to be self-assessed retrospectively before and after the course respectively (post-then). Parts of the learning objectives were based on the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory [Part one of the questionnaire addresses the study objective "feasibility and acceptance of the course”. Part two addresses the study objective of “satisfaction”.The third part of the questionnaire aims to investigate the impact of such training on the basis of learning gains. In this way, it can be determined whether the participants can learn something for themselves. The learning gain can also be used to address the third study question, that means topoint out the possibilities, but also the limits of the training, depending on how high or low the learning gain is.