Medical Education Intervention for Medical Students

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The doctor-patient relationship was becoming worse. More and more work-related violence has happened to physicians and nurses. A portion of medical students felt depressed and thought that the career future was gloomy. The study was designed to measure the empathy, an vital element of professionalism, well-being of mental and study emotion. Furthermore, the investigators explored an intervention of group study to promote medical students' professionalism, mental health and study emotion.

Detailed Description
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A total number of 200 junior medical students are going to be enrolled according to inclusive criteria. They are divided into two groups, one group is given education about medical humanities when the other group is not given any intervention but the same room and time.The outcomes including empathy, depression, quality of life, burnout and self-efficiency are measured before, during and after the trial.

Official Title
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Intervention to Promote Medical Students Empathy, Well-being and Study emotion-a Randomized Clinical Trial.

Conditions
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Mental Health

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: Education of medical humanities


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: 1 age 18 to 25 years 2 junior students majoring in clinical medicine 3 no mental diseases previously Exclusion Criteria: Did not meet inclusion criteria

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 25 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: intervention group<br>Medical students rolled into this group would accept education of medical humanities. | Other: Education of medical humanities<br>* The medical students in the intervention group would gain education about the medical humanities, but not the control group.<br>|
| No Intervention: control group<br>Medical students rolled into this group would not gain education of medical humanities. | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical students' empathy | we plan to use the scaleThe Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy to measure medical students' empathy | 3 months | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical students' burnout | we plan to use the scaleMaslach Burnout Inventory to measure medical students' burnout | 3 months | 
| Quality of life of Medical students | we plan to use the scaleMOS SF-8 Health Survey to measure medical students' quality of life | 3 months | 
| Medical students' self-efficiency | we plan to use the General Self-Efficacy Scale to measure medical students' self-efficiency | 3 months | 
| Medical students' depression | we plan to use the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 to measure medical students' depression | 3 months | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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medical students, professionalism, medical education, study emotion