Impact of a Relation Training on Empathy of Medical Student

NCT ID: NCT02681380

Last Updated: 2016-07-13

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

352 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-09-30

Study Completion Date

2016-05-31

Brief Summary

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Empathy is an important skill to learn for medical student. However, learning empathy remain difficult. The investigators aim was to assess the efficacy of a specific training, Balint like, on the empathy abilities of medical students in the 4th year. The investigators planned a randomized controlled trial in 3 universities.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Empathy

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Relation learning

Participants of this group will benefit form a specific learning on relation, Balint like. They will have 7 sessions during 3 months.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Relation learning

Intervention Type OTHER

Seven session are planned. Each will be supervised by a senior, trained to supervised Balint group.

Control group

Participants of this group will have no learning related to relation with patient.

Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Control group

Intervention Type OTHER

No session will be planned for the participants.

Interventions

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Relation learning

Seven session are planned. Each will be supervised by a senior, trained to supervised Balint group.

Intervention Type OTHER

Control group

No session will be planned for the participants.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Medical student in the 4th year

Exclusion Criteria

* None
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University Paris 7 - Denis Diderot

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Paris 13

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Paris 5 - Rene Descartes

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Céline Buffel du vaure

MD

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Philippe Jaury

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University Paris 5

References

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Buffel du Vaure C, Lemogne C, Bunge L, Catu-Pinault A, Hoertel N, Ghasarossian C, Vincens ME, Galam E, Jaury P. Promoting empathy among medical students: A two-site randomized controlled study. J Psychosom Res. 2017 Dec;103:102-107. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2017.10.008. Epub 2017 Oct 17.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 29167035 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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01004

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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