Effectiveness of Educational Games to Implementation Clinical Practice Guidelines to Family Medicine Residents in Spain.

NCT ID: NCT02210442

Last Updated: 2018-02-07

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

202 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-01-17

Study Completion Date

2017-12-31

Brief Summary

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A multicenter study to evaluate the effectiveness of a teaching strategy based on the incorporation of educational games with simulated settings versus usual practice based on diffusion for the implementation of clinical practice guidelines in Family Medicine Residency Program. The impact of the new strategy will be measured in improving knowledge and skill acquisition in clinical decision making of Family Medicine Residency Program after 6 months. Effectiveness will also be measured a month and 12 months after intervention.

Detailed Description

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Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of educational games to implementation practice guidelines to acquire skills in clinical decision-making by family medicine residents in Spain.

Secondary objectives: To describe the strategies utilized in Residency Program in Family Medicine in Spain to teach the use of practice guidelines. To identify barriers and facilitators for the use of practice guidelines for family medicine residents.

Setting: Unit Family Medicine in Spain. Study design: Multicentric cluster randomised controlled clinical trial. Population: Family Medicine Residents of second and third year. Sample size: 394 residents (197 in each arm). The randomization units will be units (clusters). The units of analysis are professionals (residents). Variables: Main outcome variable measured in both groups: assess of skill levels and number of correct answers about clinical questions in diabetes, anxiety disorders, antibiotic prescription and insomnia clinical practice guidelines in primary care.

Sociodemographic variables and educational variables for each subject and variables regarding Residency Program in Family Medicine.

Intervention: EDUCAGUIA plan. Incorporating educational games online for each guideline.

Statistical Analysis: Primary and secondary effectiveness. Adjusting by contextual and individual variables factors with mixed effects models (lineal regression) (dependent variable: points obtained in educational games in each guide).

Conditions

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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Educaguia intervention

Implementation of practice clinical guidelines with educational games

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

educaguia intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Health professionals (residents) play with educational games in order to acquire knowledge and skill about management of clinical practice guidelines.

Control group

Implementation of clinical practice guidelines with standard practice care

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

control group

Intervention Type OTHER

Health professional will learn how to manage a clinical practice guidelines with standard clinical practice.

Interventions

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educaguia intervention

Health professionals (residents) play with educational games in order to acquire knowledge and skill about management of clinical practice guidelines.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

control group

Health professional will learn how to manage a clinical practice guidelines with standard clinical practice.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Second and third year residents in Family Medicine Program.

Exclusion Criteria

* Giving up the Family Medicine Program.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Fondo de Investigacion Sanitaria

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Gerencia de Atención Primaria, Madrid

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Isabel Del Cura-Gonzalez

PhD. MD

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Isabel del Cura, MD PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Reserch Unit. Gerencia de Atención Primaria Madrid, Servicio Madrileño de Salud. Madrid. Spain.

Locations

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Gerencia de Atención Primaria

Madrid, , Spain

Site Status

Countries

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Spain

References

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Del Cura-Gonzalez I, Lopez-Rodriguez JA, Sanz-Cuesta T, Rodriguez-Barrientos R, Martin-Fernandez J, Ariza-Cardiel G, Polentinos-Castro E, Roman-Crespo B, Escortell-Mayor E, Rico-Blazquez M, Hernandez-Santiago V, Azcoaga-Lorenzo A, Ojeda-Ruiz E, Gonzalez-Gonzalez AI, Avila-Tomas JF, Barrio-Cortes J, Molero-Garcia JM, Ferrer-Pena R, Tello-Bernabe ME, Trujillo-Martin M; Educaguia Group. Effectiveness of a strategy that uses educational games to implement clinical practice guidelines among Spanish residents of family and community medicine (e-EDUCAGUIA project): a clinical trial by clusters. Implement Sci. 2016 May 17;11:71. doi: 10.1186/s13012-016-0425-3.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 27189180 (View on PubMed)

Del Cura-Gonzalez I, Ariza-Cardiel G, Polentinos-Castro E, Lopez-Rodriguez JA, Sanz-Cuesta T, Barrio-Cortes J, Andreu-Ivorra B, Rodriguez-Barrientos R, Avila-Tomas JF, Gallego-Ruiz-de-Elvira E, Lozano-Hernandez C, Martin-Fernandez J; Educaguia Group. Effectiveness of a game-based educational strategy e-EDUCAGUIA for implementing antimicrobial clinical practice guidelines in family medicine residents in Spain: a randomized clinical trial by cluster. BMC Med Educ. 2022 Dec 24;22(1):893. doi: 10.1186/s12909-022-03843-4.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 36564769 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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11/0047

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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