Mental Illness
Conditions
Keywords
Multimodal teaching, psychotherapy training, Chinese medical students, randomized controlled trial
Brief summary
Providing evidence-based, well-designed psychotherapy teaching to train them to get a basic understanding of psychotherapy and to gain required skills for clinical practice would be fundamental to medical students, residency. This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of multimodal psychotherapy training program for medical students in China.
Detailed description
Background and aims: Providing evidence-based, well-designed psychotherapy teaching for medical students and residents is urgently needed. The aim of this project is to measure the effectiveness of a newly multimodal psychotherapy teaching program for medical students and residents in China. Design: This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT). The intervention group will receive a two-day multimodal-based intensive educational intervention with 8 weeks follow-up (supervision based online teaching). The wait-list control group will not receive the intervention until the end of the study. Both groups will be followed up to 8 weeks. Setting: This trial will be conduct at the Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital. Participants: This study aims to recruit about 160 medical students and residents, with approximately 80 in each group. Measurements: The primary outcome measure is the changes of the Facilitative Interpersonal Skills task (FIS) scores. Secondary outcome measures include: training program acceptability; trainees' psychotherapy knowledge; utilization of psychotherapy; and self-reported self-efficacy and self-reported motivation for psychotherapy. Comments: If this CBT-based brief and short-term psychotherapy skill training program is proven effective, the mental health impact of its expansion nation-wide could be enormous.
Interventions
OTHERpsychotherapy training program intervention
The intervention group will receive a two-day multimodal-based intensive educational intervention of CBT with 8 weeks follow-up (supervision based online teaching).
OTHERthe wail-list control intervention
The wail-list control group will receive a message encouraging them to complete all questionnaires from baseline to the last follow-up at 8 weeks.
Sponsors
Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Masking description
Data will be blinded to intervention assignment by the trial statistician using R software
Intervention model description
This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT). The intervention group will receive a two-day multimodal-based intensive educational intervention with 8 weeks follow-up (supervision based online teaching). The wait-list control group will not receive the intervention until the end of the study. Both groups will be followed up to 8 weeks.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
1. Medical student, residents, health care providers 2. 18 years of age or older 3. Expressing an interest in psychotherapy 4. Willingness to received randomization 5. Willing to provide informed consent to participate in the study
Exclusion criteria
1. Not health care providers 2. Below 18 years old 3. Unwilling to be randomized 4. Unable to provide informed consent
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Facilitative Interpersonal Skills task (FIS) | 8 weeks | FIS has eight dimensions: 1) verbal fluency, 2) hope and positive expectations, 3) persuasiveness; 4) emotional expression; 5) warmth, acceptance and understanding; 6) empathy; 7) alliance-bond capacity; and 8) alliance rupture-repair responsiveness. The items are rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (i.e., skill deficit) to 5 (i.e., optimal presence of skill), with high inter-rater agreement and excellent internal consistency. Research indicates that FIS is reliable measure to evaluate performance and psychotherapeutic outcomes in training and assessing therapists, high FIS indicate superior outcomes and better therapeutic processes. It measures therapists' demonstrated ability to convey psychotherapy's common factors, such as hopefulness, warmth, persuasiveness, and emotional engagement. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Training program acceptability | 2 days | program acceptability will be measured for participants from the intervention group by questions for assessing program acceptability |
| Trainees' psychotherapy knowledge | 8 weeks | Knowledge about psychotherapy before and after 8 weeks will be on a 5-point scale |
| Utilization of psychotherapy | 8 weeks | the utilization rate of psychotherapy interventions for patients during 8 weeks follow-up will be measured. |
| Self-reported self-efficacy | 8 weeks | the self-efficacy will be measured by the visual analog scale (VAS) on a 10-cm line that represents a continuum between no self-efficacy and the strongest self-efficacy. |
| Self-reported motivation | 8 weeks | the motivation will be measured by the visual analog scale (VAS) on a 10-cm line that represents a continuum between no motivation and the strongest motivation. |
Countries
China
Contacts
Primary ContactLuyao Zou, MS
Outcome results
None listed