Clinical trial NCT05150067: A Blended Learning to Enhance Communication Skill Competence and Self-Efficacy of Nursing Students in Clinical Handovers
Official title: Efficacy of a Blended Learning Programme in Enhancing the Communication Skill Competence and Self-Efficacy of Nursing Students in Conducting Clinical Handovers: A Randomised Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Self Efficacy
Nursing
Communication
Keywords: Blended learning
online module
clinical handover
communication skill competence
self-efficacy
nursing students
Lead sponsor: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-12-08
Enrollment: 96
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: This study aimed to examine the efficacy of a blended learning programme in enhancing the communication skill competence and self-efficacy of final-year nursing students in conducting clinical handovers.

Detailed description: A clinical handover refers to the process of transferring the relevant information and facilitating continuity of patient care from one healthcare provider to another. It is an essential nursing practice that ensures patient safety. The information transmitted during the handover must be clear, concise and systematic to facilitate the provision of continuous patient care. Ambiguous communication and unsystematically transmitted information can often impede the clarity of ideas, result in the omission of important patient information and delay medical treatment, consequently endangering the safety of patients. Nursing students and newly graduated nurses often struggle with clinical handovers due to a lack of communication skill competence and self-efficacy in performing this practice.

Blended learning programmes (BLPs) are commonly used as constructivist pedagogical approaches in nursing education. BLPs have been used successfully to teach theoretical courses and psychomotor skills in nursing education and have been proven to benefit the knowledge, self-efficacy, motivation, attitudes and perceived competence of students. However, no studies that examine the efficiency of BLPs in enhancing the communication skill competence and self-efficacy of nursing students in conducting clinical handovers have been found. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the efficacy of BLP in improving the communication skill competence and self-efficacy of nursing students in conducting clinical handovers.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* were Hong Kong residents who could speak Cantonese and read Chinese and English
* were aged at least 18 years
* had not previously enrolled in a clinical handover training programme.

Exclusion Criteria:

- NA

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline communication skill competence at 2 weeks after they received the intervention
timeFrame: From baseline to 2 weeks after they received the intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline self-perceived communication self-efficacy level in conducting clinical handovers at 2 weeks after they received the intervention
timeFrame: From baseline to 2 weeks after they received the intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hong Kong
country: Hong Kong
facility: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Study officials:
affiliation: Chinese University of Hong Kong
name: Ho Cheung William Li
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
References:
citation: Chung JYS, Li WHC, Cheung AT, Ho LLK, Chung JOK. Efficacy of a blended learning programme in enhancing the communication skill competence and self-efficacy of nursing students in conducting clinical handovers: a randomised controlled trial. BMC Med Educ. 2022 Apr 13;22(1):275. doi: 10.1186/s12909-022-03361-3.