Add-on Video-based Training on Mental Status Examination Skills

NCT ID: NCT05795387

Last Updated: 2023-04-03

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

290 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-01-31

Study Completion Date

2023-03-07

Brief Summary

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The goal of this clinical triall is to investigate the training effect of access to authentic patient video on mental status examination performance among 5th year Danish medical students.

Aim:

To investigate if

* Students with add-on access to an authentic patient video e-library have improved Mental Status Examination precision compared to students that only have an add-on e-library with simulated patient videos.
* Number of videos watched correlate to mental status examination test scores.

Detailed Description

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The main study is a a two-armed, pragmatic cluster-randomised, superiority, partial-blinded, randomized controlled trial where the interventions are e-learning courses that serves as add-on learning material during the psychiatric clerkship.

Two student groups are compared. The experimental intervention(V) is a larger e-learning module, where the students have access to 23 authentic patient video vignettes and an e-module on mental status exam including demonstration videos with simulated patients (actor videos). The comparator students (N-V) only have access to the e-module on mental status exam including demonstration videos with simulated patients. All students participate in the regular Psychiatry curriculum i.e. 16 lectures in one week and psychiatric clerkship in three weeks.

As students have their clerkship in 10 different facilities across the Island of Zealand, we carry out cluster-randomization based on clerkship location.

Communication, recruitment and data management is carried out within the university teaching platform (CANVAS), by manual extraction, and by questionnaires distributed by SurveyXact.

Conditions

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Medical Education

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

A parallel group, superiority, partial-blinded, cluster-randomized controlled trial where both interventions are an addition to the regular psychiatric clerkship.
Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors
As mentioned, it will not be possible to mask students or local lecturers to allocation group. PI receives the clerkship student enrolment list from the faculty, randomize at clerkship location level and merge it with the consent lists collected digitally in SurveyXact. The students that have consented to participation receives individual invitation to the designated e-module. The instructor carrying out the digital mental status examination test, has no information of arm allocation. Statistical analysis will be performed by researcher blind to arm allocation, and masking will only be broken when the primary outcomes have been analyzed and a conclusion has been formulated based on the masked allocations.

Study Groups

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Experimental Add-on Intervention - Video-based self-regulated training

The intervention consist of access to the video e-library on their e-learning platform.

The video e-library consists of 23 videos of brief patient interviews, mostly with inpatients, with adjoining MSE written by three faculty psychiatrists. Selected videos are used for demonstration of phenomena, and five videos will have audio explanation of the resulting MSE.

As well as the authentic patient videos on the e-library there are some pages with written theoretical instructions on the MSE, a brief animated movie and some simulated videos by an actor all regarding the MSE.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Video-based self-regulated training on the mental status exam

Intervention Type OTHER

Authentic patient videos for self-regulated training as well as written e-course material, both on the mental status exam

Non-video group

For the present trial, also the NV students will receive the same non-authentic patient material I.E written theoretical instructions on the MSE, a brief animated movie and some simulated videos by an actor all regarding the MSE. Ensuring it is the authentic patient video e-library and not the theoretical information responsible for the expected difference in scores.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

E-course with written material on the mental status exam

Intervention Type OTHER

Written material on the mental status exam

Interventions

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Video-based self-regulated training on the mental status exam

Authentic patient videos for self-regulated training as well as written e-course material, both on the mental status exam

Intervention Type OTHER

E-course with written material on the mental status exam

Written material on the mental status exam

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Consent
* 5th year medical student at the University of Copenhagen on the psychiatric clinical rotation

Exclusion Criteria

* Previous acess to the video library.
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Copenhagen

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Psychiatric Research Unit, Region Zealand, Denmark

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Sidse M Arnfred, Professor

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Research Unit Psychotherapy and Psychopathology Psychiatry West

Esben B Schäfer, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Research Unit Psychotherapy and Psychopathology Psychiatry West

Locations

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Mental Health Service Capital Region

Copenhagen, , Denmark

Site Status

Mental Health Service Region Zealand

Slagelse, , Denmark

Site Status

Countries

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Denmark

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol

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Other Identifiers

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VV_RCT

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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