Clinical trial NCT05800912: Physical Therapy Students' Reflective Thinking With Narrative Photography in Heart Transplantation
Official title: Physical Therapy Students' Reflective Thinking With Narrative Photography in Heart Transplantation
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Students
Keywords: Physiotherapy
Education
Heart transplantation
Lead sponsor: University of Valencia
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-04-06
Enrollment: 117
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 19
Maximum age (years): 50
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Physical therapy students must learn about heart transplantation, and must be able to communicate with patients using empathy and moral sensitivity. The aim of the study is to compare the narrative photography (NP) and traditional learning (TL) methods applied to heart transplantation physical therapy, as they relate to physical therapy students' knowledge, empathy, satisfaction, and moral sensitivity.

Detailed description: Physical therapy students must learn about heart transplantation. They need to know how to attend to the needs and emotions of these patients using empathy and moral sensitivity. The aim of the study is to compare the narrative photography (NP) and traditional learning (TL) methods applied to heart transplantation physical therapy, as they relate to physical therapy students' knowledge, empathy, satisfaction, and moral sensitivity.

This is a randomized contorlled trial with 117 participants of third year of Physiotherapy Degree. Students were divided into two groups: i) NP group (n = 56), and ii) TL group (n = 61).

Physical therapy knowledge in heart transplantation, empathy, and moral sensitivity were measured pre-intervention and post-intervention in both groups. Satisfaction was measured post-intervention in the NP group.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Third-year physical therapy students who were studying the heart transplantation physical therapy course in a Physical therapy Degree.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Who did not meet the above inclusion criteria.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Knowledge of physical therapy in heart transplantation
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Knowledge of physical therapy in heart transplantation
timeFrame: After the intervention (2 weeks)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Empathy using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Empathy using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index
timeFrame: After the intervention (2 weeks)
measure: Moral sensitivity with the Revised Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Moral sensitivity with the Revised Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire
timeFrame: After the intervention (2 weeks)
measure: Satisfaction questionnaire
timeFrame: After the intervention (2 weeks)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Valencia
country: Spain
facility: University of Valencia
Study officials:
affiliation: Univeristy of Valencia
name: Elena Marqués Sulé, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Leyva-Moral JM, Aguayo-Gonzalez M, Folch C, San Rafael S, Gomez-Ibanez R. Nursing students' perceptions of the efficacy of narrative photography as a learning method: A cross-sectional study. Nurs Health Sci. 2022 Jun;24(2):380-386. doi: 10.1111/nhs.12932. Epub 2022 Mar 3.
citation: Leyva-Moral JM, Gomez-Ibanez R, San Rafael S, Guevara-Vasquez G, Aguayo-Gonzalez M. Nursing students' satisfaction with narrative photography as a method to develop empathy towards people with Hiv: A mixed-design study. Nurse Educ Today. 2021 Jan;96:104646. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104646. Epub 2020 Nov 1.