Competence, Health Literacy, Nursing Students
Conditions
Keywords
Health Communication, Formative feedback, Health Literacy, Randomized Controlled Trial, Simulation
Brief summary
Communication is a key health literacy educational competency in the professional training of health providers. However, students often have difficulty in applying theoretical communication models to the reality of clinical practice. Multimodal interventions based on simulation models emerge as an essential element to overcome this gap. During the simulation training, students must be aware of their communication errors and the needs that patients share in a clinical interaction. The aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of multimodal training, which incorporates a systematic feedback guide about the student's clinical interview simulation performance, as a training complement to classical education to improve health literacy competencies and clear communication practices in health sciences students. A randomized controlled trial will be conducted on 82 second-year nursing students recruited from the University of Cadiz. The experimental and control groups will receive the same communication multimodal training except for the inclusion of feedback on key aspects of communication for health literacy, which the experimental groups only used. Students will be assessed through clinical interview simulations by external observers. Bivariate and inferential statistical analyses will be carried out.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALMultimodal intervention (communication and education simulations) for EG1
In summary, students in EG1 received the following multimodal intervention flow: 1) Health communication training, 2) Structured educational simulation using standardized patients (SPs), and 3) simulation feedback and self-assessment using a systematic guide that included the health literacy practices.
Sponsors
University of Cadiz
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE (Subject, Outcomes Assessor)
Masking description
Participants and the data analyst will be masked.
Intervention model description
This study is a parallel group-randomized controlled trial.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 67 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Second-year nursing students at the University of Cadiz enrolled in the Interpersonal Communication Skills subject.
Exclusion criteria
* Absence in training. * Does not consent to participate in the study.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Clinical relationship during the healthcare process | 5 months | Clinical relationship developed between a healthcare professional and a patient was measured through CICAA scale (pre-test, post-test 1, and post-test 2). The CICAA scale is a measure instrument designed to assess the clinical relationship (CR) developed between a health professional and a patient. It can be used to evaluate global or partial aspects of CR, is based on an external evaluation through observation of the interaction and can be used for teaching purposes. For all 29 items (scored 0, 1, 2), the minimum score is 0, and the maximum score is 58. The higher the score, the better the communication skills in the consultation. |
Countries
Spain
Outcome results
None listed