Self-Efficacy Enhancing Interviewing Techniques Study

NCT ID: NCT00643435

Last Updated: 2008-03-26

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 64 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2006-02-28
• Study Completion Date: 2008-03-31

Brief Summary

Patient self-efficacy, or confidence in one's ability to take the necessary steps to achieve a goal, has been shown to influence a number of important health behaviors and outcomes. However, current ways of increasing patient self-efficacy are time and labor intensive and occur away from doctor visits, where most health care is delivered. We developed, and are testing in a study the effectiveness of a new way of teaching doctors how to talk to patients during office visits in a way that will boost their patients' self-efficacy for changing important health behaviors.

Conditions

Diabetes; Depression; Anxiety; Asthma; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

1

These residents receive training provided by standardized patient instructors, in use of self-efficacy enhancing interviewing techniques to support patient health behavior change,

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Self-efficacy enhancing interviewing techniques training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Teaching by standardized patient instructors regarding use of self-efficacy enhancing interviewing techniques to be applied in patient encounters

2

These residents receive training provided by a standardized patient instructor, regarding the common co-occurrence of chronic medical and mental health problems, without any interviewing technique discussion or training.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Control intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

These residents receive training provided by a standardized patient instructor, regarding the common co-occurrence of chronic medical and mental health problems, without any interviewing technique discussion or training.

Interventions

Self-efficacy enhancing interviewing techniques training

Teaching by standardized patient instructors regarding use of self-efficacy enhancing interviewing techniques to be applied in patient encounters

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Control intervention

These residents receive training provided by a standardized patient instructor, regarding the common co-occurrence of chronic medical and mental health problems, without any interviewing technique discussion or training.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Family medicine or internal medicine residents in training at the University of California Davis Medical Center

Exclusion Criteria

• None

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of California, Davis

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Department of Family and Community Medicine, UC Davis School of Medicine

Principal Investigators

Anthony F Jerant, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine

Other Identifiers

200715598-1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id