Effects of an Intervention to Enhance Resilience in Physical Therapy Students
NCT ID: NCT02541240
Last Updated: 2016-05-11
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
43 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2015-09-30
2016-01-31
Brief Summary
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Hypothesis: The curriculum will decrease stress levels, increase resilience, coping flexibility, protective factors (optimism, positive affect, and social support), and reduce symptomatology (negative affect, illness). Research on stress and its consequences experienced by physical therapy students in particular is limited. If the results of this study support this hypothesis, it may establish the benefit of adding a resilience component to the curriculum for students of physical therapy.
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Detailed Description
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Pre- and post-intervention assessments will be administered to both groups, with baseline assessments administered in the first two weeks of the semester. The assessments will include measures of stress levels, levels of resilience, coping flexibility, optimism, positive and negative emotions, social support, and symptoms of illness. The intervention, the presentation of a resilience curriculum, will be delivered to the intervention group during the week following the baseline assessments and it will last for four weeks.
The resilience curriculum will provide education for participants about methods to increase protective factors against stress, the use of effective coping strategies, and the importance of accessing social support, with the goal of better managing stress and enhancing resilience. The intervention will include a didactic component, skills-building training, and homework exercises to encourage the application of the skills. The curriculum will be delivered in four 2-hour modules, with one module delivered each week. The follow-up assessments will occur after midterm examinations are concluded. An abbreviated curriculum which will last approximately two hours will be delivered to the wait-list control group.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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Resilience Curriculum
The intervention is exposure to an 8-hour Resilience Curriculum. It will provide education for participants about methods to increase protective factors against stress, the use of effective coping strategies, and the importance of accessing social support, with the goal of better managing stress and enhancing resilience. The curriculum will include a didactic component, skills-building training, and homework exercises to encourage the application of the skills.
Resilience Curriculum
The Resilience Curriculum consists of 4 modules, with one 2-hour module presented each week.
No Resilience Curriculum
The Waitlist Control group will receive no exposure to the Resilience Curriculum. After the final data is collected, this group will be offered the opportunity to attend a condensed 2-hour version of the curriculum.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Resilience Curriculum
The Resilience Curriculum consists of 4 modules, with one 2-hour module presented each week.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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University of Indianapolis
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Anne Mejia-Downs
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigators
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Anne M Mejia-Downs, PT, MPH
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Indianapolis
Locations
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Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
University of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Countries
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References
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O'Leary VE, Ickovics JR. Resilience and thriving in response to challenge: an opportunity for a paradigm shift in women's health. Womens Health. 1995 Summer;1(2):121-42.
Walsh JM, Feeney C, Hussey J, Donnellan C. Sources of stress and psychological morbidity among undergraduate physiotherapy students. Physiotherapy. 2010 Sep;96(3):206-12. doi: 10.1016/j.physio.2010.01.005. Epub 2010 Apr 8.
Jacob T, Itzchak EB, Raz O. Stress among healthcare students--a cross disciplinary perspective. Physiother Theory Pract. 2013 Jul;29(5):401-12. doi: 10.3109/09593985.2012.734011. Epub 2012 Oct 24.
Carver CS, Scheier MF, Weintraub JK. Assessing coping strategies: a theoretically based approach. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1989 Feb;56(2):267-83. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.56.2.267.
Tugade MM, Fredrickson BL. Resilient individuals use positive emotions to bounce back from negative emotional experiences. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2004 Feb;86(2):320-33. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.86.2.320.
Steinhardt M, Dolbier C. Evaluation of a resilience intervention to enhance coping strategies and protective factors and decrease symptomatology. J Am Coll Health. 2008 Jan-Feb;56(4):445-53. doi: 10.3200/JACH.56.44.445-454.
McAllister M, McKinnon J. The importance of teaching and learning resilience in the health disciplines: a critical review of the literature. Nurse Educ Today. 2009 May;29(4):371-9. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2008.10.011. Epub 2008 Dec 3.
Connor KM, Davidson JR. Development of a new resilience scale: the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC). Depress Anxiety. 2003;18(2):76-82. doi: 10.1002/da.10113.
Other Identifiers
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RARMUoHP063015
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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