Clinical trial NCT05888480: A Culturally Specific End-of-life Communication Skills Training
Official title: Effects of a Culturally Specific End-of-life Communication Skills Training for Chinese Oncology Nurses
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: End-Of-Life
Keywords: Communication
Nurse
Terminally ill
Lead sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-06-05
Enrollment: 148
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SEQUENTIAL
Intervention model description: The IG will receive the end-of-life CST between the two measurement points, and the CG will be a waitlist group and receive the training after the end of data collection.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of culturally specific end-of-life communication skills training (CST) among Chinese oncology nurses.

The main question it aims to answer is: What is the effectiveness of culturally specific end-of-life CST among Chinese oncology nurses? Participants will receive an 8-week communication skills training. Researchers will compare the intervention group and the wait-list group to see if skills, self-efficacy, and outcome expectancy beliefs will be improved.

Detailed description: Objectives: The study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of culturally specific end-of-life CST among Chinese oncology nurses.

Design and participants: It is designed as a single-blind, pre-post randomized controlled trial (RCT). Registered nurses who work with advanced cancer patients in hospital settings will be recruited. The participants will be randomly assigned to either the intervention group (IG) or the control group (CG). The IG will receive the end-of-life CST between the two measurement points, and the CG will be a waitlist group and receive the training after the end of data collection.

Data analysis: Demographic information about the participants will be summarised in descriptive statistics. Independent t-tests and chi-square tests are used to investigate the comparability of groups in terms of the demographics generated by randomization. The primary and secondary outcome variables will be examined using covariate-adjusted linear mixed models. This approach enables the consideration of missing data. For non-repeated continuous measurements, ordinary linear regression and logistic models will be adopted. The intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis and post hoc analyses of contaminated data will be performed.

Expected results: Nurses' skills, self-efficacy, and outcome expectancy beliefs will improve after the CST.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Registered nurses who work with advanced cancer patients in hospital settings
* Consent to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

* Nurses working temporarily in the two hospitals as scholars or trainees from other hospitals
* Specialized nurses in palliative care

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline Skills at 3 months
timeFrame: up to 3 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline Self-efficacy at 3 months
timeFrame: up to 3 months
measure: Change from Baseline Outcome expectancy beliefs 3 months
timeFrame: up to 3 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Acceptance and satisfaction
timeFrame: up to 3 months
Locations:
city: Hangzhou
country: China
facility: Zhejiang Cancer Hospital
state: Zhejiang
Study officials:
affiliation: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
name: Joyce Chung, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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