Clinical trial NCT06258460: Multimodal Psychotherapy Training for Chinese Medical Students
Official title: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Multimodal Psychotherapy Training Program for Medical Students in China: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mental Illness
Keywords: Multimodal teaching
psychotherapy training
Chinese medical students
randomized controlled trial
Lead sponsor: Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-02-14
Enrollment: 180
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT). The intervention group will receive a two-day multimodal-based intensive educational intervention with 8 weeks follow-up (supervision based online teaching). The wait-list control group will not receive the intervention until the end of the study. Both groups will be followed up to 8 weeks.
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: Providing evidence-based, well-designed psychotherapy teaching to train them to get a basic understanding of psychotherapy and to gain required skills for clinical practice would be fundamental to medical students, residency. This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of multimodal psychotherapy training program for medical students in China.

Detailed description: Background and aims: Providing evidence-based, well-designed psychotherapy teaching for medical students and residents is urgently needed. The aim of this project is to measure the effectiveness of a newly multimodal psychotherapy teaching program for medical students and residents in China.

Design: This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT). The intervention group will receive a two-day multimodal-based intensive educational intervention with 8 weeks follow-up (supervision based online teaching). The wait-list control group will not receive the intervention until the end of the study. Both groups will be followed up to 8 weeks.

Setting: This trial will be conduct at the Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital.

Participants: This study aims to recruit about 160 medical students and residents, with approximately 80 in each group.

Measurements: The primary outcome measure is the changes of the Facilitative Interpersonal Skills task (FIS) scores. Secondary outcome measures include: training program acceptability; trainees' psychotherapy knowledge; utilization of psychotherapy; and self-reported self-efficacy and self-reported motivation for psychotherapy.

Comments: If this CBT-based brief and short-term psychotherapy skill training program is proven effective, the mental health impact of its expansion nation-wide could be enormous.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Medical student, residents, health care providers
2. 18 years of age or older
3. Expressing an interest in psychotherapy
4. Willingness to received randomization
5. Willing to provide informed consent to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Not health care providers
2. Below 18 years old
3. Unwilling to be randomized
4. Unable to provide informed consent

Primary outcomes:
measure: Facilitative Interpersonal Skills task (FIS)
timeFrame: 8 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Training program acceptability
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: Trainees' psychotherapy knowledge
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Utilization of psychotherapy
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Self-reported self-efficacy
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Self-reported motivation
timeFrame: 8 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hangzhou
country: China
facility: Yanhui Liao
state: Zhejiang
Study officials:
affiliation: Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital
name: Tang Jinsong, MD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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