Culture is Care: Training Workshop for Care Workers (VerbaCurant)

NCT ID: NCT06410560

Last Updated: 2024-05-13

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

175 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-03-18

Study Completion Date

2022-12-06

Brief Summary

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The study aims to measure the empathic capacity of healthcare professionals belonging to the Alessandria Hospital, by applying validated measuring instruments, before and after a specific training intervention. The secondary objective is to assess how the training initiative impacts on subjects with a different attitude towards cultural participation.

Detailed Description

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The aim of this project is to identify how a medical humanities intervention can act on the empathic capacity of carers through culture. One of the aims is to introduce an additional element to overcome the problems about language, prejudices, legitimisation by stakeholders who do not yet recognise the value and importance of projects promoting the relationship between culture, wellbeing and health. "Verba Curant" is aimed at generating cultural value, with the hope that it can unite the different professional fields involved and become the heritage of the community.

The project of the Alessandria Hospital Centre in collaboration with the Holden School intends to launch a series of actions aimed at promoting the beneficial impact of culture, in particular storytelling, on the caregivers and patients of the Alessandria Hospital in order to measure how much cultural enjoyment can impact on health literacy. It is planned to define a methodological tool useful for making care workers aware of the importance of culture and dialogue with patients, as well as being able to measure their degree of literacy. The tool will be the object of a widespread training action on care workers, which will also involve all the stakeholders involved in the transmission of health information to patients.

Conditions

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Empathy Well-Being, Psychological

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Training workshop with hands-on laboratory

Participants will undergo a training course for a total of 12 hours: 4 FAD + 8 in the laboratory. They will receive theoretical narrative medicine education with 4 hours of distance education and a practice course of storytelling and creative writing whit 8 hours of distance education in small groups, enabling discussion and interaction among participants.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Training about storytelling and creative writing: 12 hours

Intervention Type OTHER

Participants in training courses on creative writing and storytelling.

Brief training course

Participants will undergo a training course for a total of 4 FAD hours. They will receive theoretical narrative medicine education with 4 hours of distance education.

Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Training only about theoretical narrative medicine: 4 hours

Intervention Type OTHER

Participants in training courses on only theoretical narrative medicine.

Interventions

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Training about storytelling and creative writing: 12 hours

Participants in training courses on creative writing and storytelling.

Intervention Type OTHER

Training only about theoretical narrative medicine: 4 hours

Participants in training courses on only theoretical narrative medicine.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Health professionals related to the Alessandria Hospital

Exclusion Criteria

* none
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Compagnia di San Paolo

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Scuola Holden Contemporary Humanities

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Azienda Ospedaliera SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Marinella Bertolotti, Biologist

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Azienda Ospedaliera SS Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo

Locations

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Azienda Ospedaliera SS Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo

Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy

Site Status

Countries

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Italy

Other Identifiers

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ASO.IRFI.21.02

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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