Clinical trial NCT05795387: Add-on Video-based Training on Mental Status Examination Skills
Official title: Add-on Video-based Training: Effect on Mental Status Examination Skills in 5th Year Medical Students - an Educational RCT
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Medical Education
Keywords: e-learning
psychopathology
mental status examination
Lead sponsor: Psychiatric Research Unit, Region Zealand, Denmark
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: University of Copenhagen
First posted: 2023-04-03
Enrollment: 290
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: A parallel group, superiority, partial-blinded, cluster-randomized controlled trial where both interventions are an addition to the regular psychiatric clerkship.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The goal of this clinical triall is to investigate the training effect of access to authentic patient video on mental status examination performance among 5th year Danish medical students.

Aim:

To investigate if

* Students with add-on access to an authentic patient video e-library have improved Mental Status Examination precision compared to students that only have an add-on e-library with simulated patient videos.
* Number of videos watched correlate to mental status examination test scores.

Detailed description: The main study is a a two-armed, pragmatic cluster-randomised, superiority, partial-blinded, randomized controlled trial where the interventions are e-learning courses that serves as add-on learning material during the psychiatric clerkship.

Two student groups are compared. The experimental intervention(V) is a larger e-learning module, where the students have access to 23 authentic patient video vignettes and an e-module on mental status exam including demonstration videos with simulated patients (actor videos). The comparator students (N-V) only have access to the e-module on mental status exam including demonstration videos with simulated patients. All students participate in the regular Psychiatry curriculum i.e. 16 lectures in one week and psychiatric clerkship in three weeks.

As students have their clerkship in 10 different facilities across the Island of Zealand, we carry out cluster-randomization based on clerkship location.

Communication, recruitment and data management is carried out within the university teaching platform (CANVAS), by manual extraction, and by questionnaires distributed by SurveyXact.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Consent
* 5th year medical student at the University of Copenhagen on the psychiatric clinical rotation

Exclusion Criteria:

* Previous acess to the video library.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Mental status exam skills test
timeFrame: A week after the intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: MSE skill test score stratification
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: General evaluation of the clinical rotation
timeFrame: Immediately after the intervention
measure: Questions concerning use of the video e-library
timeFrame: Immediately after the intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Copenhagen
country: Denmark
facility: Mental Health Service Capital Region
city: Slagelse
country: Denmark
facility: Mental Health Service Region Zealand
Study officials:
affiliation: Research Unit Psychotherapy and Psychopathology Psychiatry West
name: Sidse M Arnfred, Professor
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Research Unit Psychotherapy and Psychopathology Psychiatry West
name: Esben B Schäfer, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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