Questionnaire Survey of the Advanced Training Program for Laparoscopic Radical Gastrectomy

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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This study aims to evaluate the outcomes of the advanced training program for laparoscopic radical gastrectomy (ATP-LRG). The research subjects are the trainees who participated in this training program.

Detailed Description
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Written informed consent is not required because of the observational and anonymous nature of this study. ATP-LRG is a national training program carried out by Fujian Medical University Union Hospital. Each training lasts about 1.5 days, which includes 1) detailed technique description; 2) prevention and solving of intraoperative complications; 3) live surgery performance; 4) theory and practice of clinical research; 5) comments on trainees' videos; and 6) questions, answers and discussions. In this study, 875 trainees who participated in ATP-LRG from January 2015 to October 2020 were interviewed using electronic questionnaires. Using a repeated-measures design to examine differences in outcomes before and after participating in the training. Questionnaire Star (Changsha Ranxing Information Technology Co., Ltd), a most widely used professional online questionnaire software platform in China, was used to design and create a link to the questionnaire. The questionnaire's link was sent to each trainee via WeChat (Tencent Holdings Limited), the most commonly used social networking software in China.

Official Title
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Outcomes of the National Advanced Training Program for Laparoscopic Radical Gastrectomy: a Survey Based on Follow-up Questionnaire

Conditions
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Gastric Cancer

Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Participated in ATP-LRG between January 2015 and October 2020 Have contact information Exclusion Criteria: Repeated participation in ATP-LRG Refuse to fill out the questionnaire
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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What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Change of general surgical skills score | Change of general surgical skills score = posttraining general surgical skills score - pretraining general surgical skills score. Scores were evaluated using questionares. | One year after participating in ATP-LRG | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Changes of laparoscopic gastrectomy acceptance score | Changes of laparoscopic gastrectomy acceptance score = posttraining laparoscopic gastrectomy acceptance score - pretraining laparoscopic gastrectomy acceptance score. Scores were evaluated using questionares. | One year after participating in ATP-LRG | 
| Changes of clinical research possibilities score | Changes of clinical research possibilities score= posttraining clinical research possibilities score - pretraining clinical research possibilities score. Scores were evaluated using questionares. | One year after participating in ATP-LRG |