Learning Crisis Resource Management: Practicing Versus Observational Role in Simulation Training

NCT ID: NCT01653704

Last Updated: 2019-01-14

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 42 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2012-03-31
• Study Completion Date: 2014-02-28

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness in learning crisis resource management (CRM) principles when being an active participant in simulation-based education versus being an observer participant. The investigators hypothesize that active participants will improve their CRM skills more than observer participants.

Detailed Description

This will be a prospective randomized controlled study. Participants will be randomized to one of two groups with stratification according to their level of training: the active group and the observer group. Each participant of the active group will be paired with one of the participants from the observer group. The active participant will manage individually a simulated crisis scenario (pretest) while the paired observer participant will observe the scenario from outside the simulation room using a video transmission system. Immediately after, both participants will be debriefed by a trained instructor focused on CRM principles. The same active and observer participants will then individually manage another simulated crisis scenario (post-test). Two independent raters, blinded to the study design and to the randomization groups, will review the videos of all scenarios in a random order and rate each participant on their CRM performance using a global rating scale (GRS).

Conditions

Focus of Study is Teaching Crisis Resource Management

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

active management of crises scenario

participants assigned to actively manage a crisis scenario

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

active role

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

active role in managing crisis scenario

Observer role in crisis scenario

Observational role in management of crises scenario

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

observational role

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

observational role in crisis scenario

Interventions

observational role

observational role in crisis scenario

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

active role

active role in managing crisis scenario

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• emergency medicine residents from the University of Ottawa

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Anita Lai, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Ottawa

Sylvain Boet, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Ottawa

Locations

University of Ottawa Skills and Simulation Centre

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Countries

Canada

References

Lai A, Haligua A, Dylan Bould M, Everett T, Gale M, Pigford AA, Boet S. Learning crisis resource management: Practicing versus an observational role in simulation training - a randomized controlled trial. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2016 Aug;35(4):275-81. doi: 10.1016/j.accpm.2015.10.010. Epub 2016 Mar 14.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 26987738 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

20120008-01H

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id