Kangaroo Mother care impact on Medical Students

To compare the effectiveness of counseling skills, including empathy, between MBBS students who first administer Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) and then counsel parents, versus those who only counsel parents. - IKEMS

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Phase 3

Study type

Interventional

Source

CTRI

Registry ID

CTRI/2025/07/090137

Enrollment

128

Registered

2025-07-03

Start date

Unknown

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-07-21

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Intervention1: KMC administration: administration of KMC for 2 hours Control Intervention1: NO KMC: NO KMC measured empathy

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Medical sudents in MBBS course who have not had any exposure to KMC before

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Students who deny consent or those who have administered KMC before

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Empathy ScoreTimepoint: Immediately After Intervention is completed	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
To assess the impact of experiential learning (administering KMC) on the empathy levels of MBBS students and evaluate the overall counseling self-efficacy of both groups using the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE-S)Timepoint: immediately	—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactDr Somashekhar Nimbalkar

Bhaikaka University

somu_somu@yahoo.com9825087842

Outcome results