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Teaching safety skills to mental health service providers: a comparison of two training methods

Behavioral skills training for teaching safety skills to mental health service providers compared to training-as-usual: a pragmatic randomized control trial

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN18133140
Enrollment
80
Registered
2023-09-06
Start date
2020-01-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2024-06-03

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Mandatory safety skills training for all newly hired hospital staff Not Applicable

Interventions

Behavioral skills training (intervention) versus training-as-usual. Behavioral skills training is a performance and competency-based training method that uses a modeling, practice, and feedback loop
the registrants were then asked to practice and repeatedly demonstrate the skill until a predetermined suc

Sponsors

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. All newly hired hospital staff 2. Registering for mandatory safety skills training 3. Agreeing to participate in the study 4. Signing informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Does not meet inclusion criteria

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
All videotaped assessments for both arms were scored using the skills checklists by raters blind to which condition the participant was assigned to as well as which timepoint (baseline, post-training, and one-month follow-up.) 1. Competence in self-protection and team-control safety skills was measured as the percentage of correct executions observed by the videoraters 2. Mastery calculated using a pre-set threshold -- specifically 80 percent or higher competence scores.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Staff confidence in using skills measured based on a self-reported survey at baseline, post-training, and one-month follow-up

Countries

Canada

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 6, 2026