Evaluating the effectiveness of using a modelled role-play to teach student health professionals how to incorporate evidence into their communication with patients

Does the use of a modelled role-play improve student health professionals' ability to incorporate evidence into their communication with patients

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12610000685011

Enrollment

Registered

2010-08-19

Start date

2010-08-23

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of providing health professional students with the opportunity to observe and discuss a modelled role-play that demonstrates how to communicate evidence to patients and faciliate shared decision making. It is hypothesised that the intervention will be effective at improving students' ability to incorporate evidence into their communication and facilitate shared decision making with patients, and improve their confidence and attitude towards doing so.

Interventions

Students will attend one 1-hour tutorial on the principles of communicating evidence to patients, watch a role-play that models effective communication of evidence, and participate in a faciliated group discussion about the observed role-play. As per students in the control group, intervention group students will also receive the usual teaching methods for this course and be directed to read a relevant chapter in the course textbook.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Educational / counselling / training

Masking

Blinded (masking used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

0 to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

Student health professional (occupational therapy, physiotherapy, or medicine) enrolled in a course that teaches the principles of evidence-based practice

Exclusion criteria

Nil

Outcome results