The Effect of Immediate Feedback on Long-term Blood Pressure Measurement Skills: a Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT ID: NCT03143699

Last Updated: 2017-08-03

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

120 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-03-28

Study Completion Date

2018-02-28

Brief Summary

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The present study aims to investigate the effect of immediate feedback on long-term blood pressure measurement skills. This is a randomized controlled trial including first year students from a Brazilian medical school, which will be randomized in two groups: an intervention group (submitted to a training on blood pressure measurement skills and an immediate feedback) and a control group (submitted to a training on blood pressure measurement skills, but with no immediate feedback). Then, students will be assessed 3 months after the feedback in order to see whether there will be a difference between groups. Our hypothesis is that students submitted to immediate feedback would have better scores in the blood-pressure measurement skills after 3 months. A knowledge questionnaire as well as a standardized patient scenario will be used to assess students' knowledge and skills.

Detailed Description

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There are several studies evaluating the role of feedback in medical education, showing promising outcomes. Although, immediate feedback is associated with better knowledge and skills in short-term, few studies have assessed whether immediate feedback could impact the maintenance of skills. The present study aims to investigate the effect of immediate feedback on long-term blood pressure measurement skills. This is a randomized controlled trial including first year students from a Brazilian medical school, which will be randomized in two groups: an intervention group (submitted to a training on blood pressure measurement skills and an immediate feedback after their encounter with an standardized patient - SP) and a control group (submitted to the same training on blood pressure measurement skills, but with no immediate feedback after the SP encounter).

Both groups will be trained to measure blood pressure in the same way, with a brief 4-hour theoretical-practical intervention. After the training, students will measure the blood pressure of a standardized patient and observers will evaluate them using a checklist.

Then, students will have no other exposure to the BP training for three months and they will be invited again to participate in another SP encounter. Differences on BP skills after 3 months between those exposed to immediate feedback and those not exposed to immediate feedback would be investigated.

Conditions

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Education, Medical Blood Pressure

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Immediate feedback

Submitted to a training on blood pressure measurement skills and an immediate feedback after their encounter with an standardized patient - SP

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Immediate Feedback

Intervention Type OTHER

Students will be trained to measure blood pressure in the same way, with a brief 4-hour theoretical-practical intervention. After the training, students will measure the blood pressure of a standardized patient and observers will evaluate them using a checklist. After that, students from the intervention group will receive an immediate feedback based on the previous literature. Briefly, feedback will be based on what was directly observed and will be phrased in non-judgmental language, following the Pendleton model.

Students with no immediate feedback

Submitted to a training on blood pressure measurement skills, but without an immediate feedback after their encounter with an standardized patient - SP

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Immediate Feedback

Students will be trained to measure blood pressure in the same way, with a brief 4-hour theoretical-practical intervention. After the training, students will measure the blood pressure of a standardized patient and observers will evaluate them using a checklist. After that, students from the intervention group will receive an immediate feedback based on the previous literature. Briefly, feedback will be based on what was directly observed and will be phrased in non-judgmental language, following the Pendleton model.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* students officially registered in the first semester of the medical school and older than 18 years old.

Exclusion Criteria

* those absent in any part of the blood pressure measurement training and those who not signed the consent term
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Federal University of Juiz de Fora

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Giancarlo Lucchetti, MD, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Federal University of Juiz de Fora

Locations

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Faculdade de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde de Juiz de Fora

Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Brazil

Central Contacts

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Margareth AB e Castro, RN

Role: CONTACT

55(32)998193700

Oscarina S Ezequiel, MD, PhD

Role: CONTACT

55 (32) 2102-3845

Facility Contacts

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Margareth Alves Bastos e Castro, Student

Role: primary

32998193700 ext. +55

Other Identifiers

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1.712.520

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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