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Changes in Resilience in Students of Occupational Therapy after their first exposure to Practice Placement Education. Rodríguez-Martínez, María del Carmen Toledano González, Abel Triviño-Juárez, José Matías Polonio-López, Begoña Segura-Fragoso, Antonio López Martín, Olga Cantero-Garlito, Pablo Rodríguez-Hernández, Marta Corregidor-Sánchez, Ana Romero Ayuso, Dulce Nombre de María Terapia ocupacional - Estudio y enseñanza superior Resiliencia (Psicología) Investigación activa en educación Introduction: Resilience is a multidimensional and dynamic construct associated with positive growth and the capacity to transform stressful and negative factors into opportunities of personal development and self-improvement when faced with difficult experiences. The resilience process of each individual integrates multiple analysis levels, which range from genetic-environmental interactions to a complex process of adaptation between the individual and his/her family, friends, co-workers, society, and culture. Objective: To determine whether resilience improves in students of occupational therapy when exposed for the first time to practice placement education. Methodology: Quasi-experimental, prospective, observational, multi-center study with a sample composed of students from the Degree of Occupational Therapy of the public universities of Málaga (UMA) and Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) (Spain). Two weeks prior to the beginning of the practice education period, the participants completed a questionnaire that included sociodemographic data and the area of their internships. They were also given the Spanish version of the Connor-Davidson's resilience scale (CD-RISC). All these instruments were also completed 1 week after the end of the clinical practice. Results: There were statistically significant differences between the variables that make up resilience and the different internship areas. On the other hand, there was a significant improvement of global resilience after the clinical practice period, in both women (13.85 points; p < 0.001) and men (7.72 points; p < 0.035), when the internship area was not considered. Conclusions: The results show that resilient students are more optimistic and work to improve a situation beyond doing simply what is expected of them, knowing how to control their feelings. 2025-12-18T09:57:44Z 2025-12-18T09:57:44Z 2021 journal article Rodríguez-Martínez, M. D. C., Toledano-González, A., Triviño-Juárez, J. M., Polonio-López, B., Segura-Fragoso, A., López-Martín, O., ... & Romero-Ayuso, D. (2021). Changes in resilience in students of occupational therapy after their first exposure to practice placement education. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 658187. https://hdl.handle.net/10630/41200 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.658187 eng open access Frontiers