Effectiveness of a Multimodal Intervention With Simulation for Learning Home Health Nursing Care of Patients With Multimorbidity and Heart Failure

NCT ID: NCT06855719

Last Updated: 2025-07-03

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

80 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-03-10

Study Completion Date

2025-05-23

Brief Summary

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The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the efficacy of a multimodal intervention with high-fidelity simulations on home health nursing in improving the care of multipathological patients with heart failure in nursing students. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Does using validated simulation scenarios on multipathological patients with heart failure improve care competencies in nursing students?
* Does knowledge of scientific evidence and healthcare protocols improve nursing students' performance in the simulator?

Researchers will compare a multimodal intervention with high-fidelity simulations on home health nursing to conventional intervention (theoretical teaching) to see if nursing students better learn competencies related to the care of patients with multimorbidity and heart failure during the home health nursing.

Participants will:

* Experience simulations on validated simulation scenarios on multipathological patients with heart failure (All participants).
* Reflect on the intervention performed on the simulator through individual and group debriefings (Experimental Group).
* Learn about the main scientific evidence and international and national protocols related to comorbidities and health failure (Experimental Group).

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Multimorbidity Heart Failure

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

This study is a parallel group-randomized controlled trial.
Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors
To guarantee the objectivity and impartiality of the study, masking will be performed, which implies that the random assignment of the participants to the groups, the evaluation of the performance of the nursing students in the simulations in the pretest and posttest, and the subsequent statistical analysis of the data will be performed by researchers external to the study. Also, the evaluators of the simulations and the data analyst will not know the assignment of the participants to the Control and Experimental groups.

Study Groups

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Experimental Group

Students will receive simulation training, which will be evaluated through individual and group debriefing sessions. They will also have access to their recording simulations for autonomous learning. They will learn the protocols and current scientific evidence on the care of multipathologic patients with heart failure.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Training in high-fidelity simulation and knowledge of care protocols in patients with multimorbidity and heart failure

Intervention Type OTHER

Participants will perform an individual simulation as nurses related to the patient profile in their home (pretest and postest). After each simulation, each participant will receive a recording of their simulation, and both individual and group debriefings will be conducted. In addition, they will be trained in scientific evidence and international and national protocols regarding the care of these patients in the context of home health nursing.

Control Group

Students will receive only theoretical teaching about primary health care in nursing.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Training in high-fidelity simulation and knowledge of care protocols in patients with multimorbidity and heart failure

Participants will perform an individual simulation as nurses related to the patient profile in their home (pretest and postest). After each simulation, each participant will receive a recording of their simulation, and both individual and group debriefings will be conducted. In addition, they will be trained in scientific evidence and international and national protocols regarding the care of these patients in the context of home health nursing.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Nursing students enrolled in the subject "Family and Community Nursing I".

Exclusion Criteria

* Lack of attendance since the beginning of the course.
* Failure to follow the instructions of the instructors during the course of the study.
* Voluntary withdrawal from the study during the study or declaring non-participation.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Cadiz

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Antonio Jesús Marín Paz

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Faculty of Nursing

Algeciras, Cadiz, Spain

Site Status

Countries

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Spain

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Provided Documents

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Document Type: Statistical Analysis Plan

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Other Identifiers

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087_2024

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Identifier Source: org_study_id

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