Comparison of the Perception of Non-technical Skills

NCT ID: NCT06340529

Last Updated: 2026-01-27

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 100 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-05-30
• Study Completion Date: 2026-06-30

Brief Summary

Clinical simulation has recently acquired great importance in the health sciences. It is a pedagogical methodology that is increasingly used in health science degrees, since it is very useful for the acquisition of both technical and non-technical skills (leadership, teamwork and effective communication, among others).

However, if the investigators focus on physical therapy, the use of clinical simulation is a novel field and therefore requires a great deal of research. Researchers in this field do not yet have the consistency and experience as in other health branches such as medicine or nursing, where the participants have been using high-fidelity simulators for years for the learning of all their students.

Clinical simulation allows students to achieve these competencies without the need to practice on real patients. For all these reasons, and because of the situation of need generated in recent years, in which internships in hospitals and clinical centers were completely suppressed, the need for our research is justified.

Conditions

Healthy

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SCREENING
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Between equals

Physiotherapy students who do not participate in the simulation, but they do observe the simulation and participate in the debriefing.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Clinical Simulation

Intervention Type: OTHER

Carrying out a total of 9 clinical simulation in three days, one day every two weeks, where the student resolves a situation by taking on the role of a physiotherapist with a simulated patient.

Self appraisal

Physiotherapy students who participate in the simulation in all its phases.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Clinical Simulation

Intervention Type: OTHER

Carrying out a total of 9 clinical simulation in three days, one day every two weeks, where the student resolves a situation by taking on the role of a physiotherapist with a simulated patient.

Lecturers

Teachers observing the intervention and participate as patients and in the debriefing

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Clinical Simulation

Intervention Type: OTHER

Carrying out a total of 9 clinical simulation in three days, one day every two weeks, where the student resolves a situation by taking on the role of a physiotherapist with a simulated patient.

Interventions

Clinical Simulation

Carrying out a total of 9 clinical simulation in three days, one day every two weeks, where the student resolves a situation by taking on the role of a physiotherapist with a simulated patient.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Second year students of the Physiotherapy Degree
• They do not have clinical experience with real patients.
• Subject teachers

Exclusion Criteria

• Not wanting to sign to participate in the study.
• Not signing the informed consent
• Teachers who do not have experience in clinical simulation

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Valencia

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

María del Carmen Casal Angulo

Principal investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Carmen Casal-Angulo, PhD RN

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

University of Valencia

Locations

Carmen Casal

Valencia, , Spain

Countries

Spain

Other Identifiers

CLS_SIMULATION

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id