Clinical trial NCT05623475: Effects of Scenario-based Education Initiative and OSCE for Recognition and Management of Delirium
Official title: Evaluating the Effects of Implementing a Scenario-based Education Initiative and OSCE for Recognition and Management of Delirium: a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Delirium
Keywords: Intensive Care Unit Syndrome
Delirium
OSCE
Lead sponsor: Taipei Medical University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-11-21
Enrollment: 100
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: Delirium is a disturbance in consciousness with reduced ability to focus, sustain, or shift attention that occurs over a short period of time and tends to fluctuate over the course of the day. 50% to 81.7% had delirium during their ICU hospitalization. Delirium is associated with increased physical restraint, ventilation use, length of ICU stay, and mortality. However, there is no established delirium care pathway in target hospital. Chen et al. (2014) demonstrated that structured assessment stations with immediate feedback may improve overall learning efficiency over an EBP workshop alone. However, no published delirium care education study has used OSCEs as an intervention for healthcare professionals. The aim is to evaluate the effects of implementing a Scenario- based education intervention, including objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) on delirium care among healthcare professionals. This is a knowledge translation research, builds on eight years of delirium care research in University of Wollongong, Australia. The research will be undertaken at ICUs in a medical center in northern of Taiwan. There are two phases: (1) systematic review to identify delirium screen tool, and (2) a randomized controlled trial was conducted to determine the effects of implementing a Scenario-based education intervention, including OSCE (experimental group), and on-line education only (control group) focused on recognition and management of delirium. The hypothesis is: Scenario-based education intervention, including OSCE can increase the competence and self-efficacy among healthcare professionals in delirium care.

Detailed description: OSCEs are an integral aspect of all levels of medical education but limited to undergraduate nursing and allied health education. OSCEs are rarely used in the workplace as learning activities with nursing and allied health clinicians. This is the reason why this education initiative was innovative. OSCEs are simulated 'real life' clinical scenarios presented to clinicians who are required to demonstrate to an assessor the clinical tasks which form an OSCE scenario.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Registered nurse worked in acute care unit and care with critical patients
2. Licensed physician which undertake the post graduate year program worked in acute care unit and care with critical patients

Exclusion Criteria:

1.Unwilling to involved the research

Primary outcomes:
measure: Delirium Knowledge
timeFrame: T0(Baseline), T1(Immediately after the intervention), T2(Six weeks after the intervention)
Secondary outcomes:
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Locations:
city: Taipei
country: Taiwan
facility: Taipei Medical University Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: Taipei Medical University
name: Kee-Hsin Chen, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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