Clinical trial NCT06490406: Communication Practices to Develop the Health Literacy Competencies in Nursing Students
Official title: Communication Practices to Develop the Health Literacy Competencies in Nursing Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Health Literacy
Competence
Nursing Students
Keywords: Health Communication
Formative feedback
Health Literacy
Randomized Controlled Trial
Simulation
Lead sponsor: University of Cadiz
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-07-08
Enrollment: 82
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 67
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: This study is a parallel group-randomized controlled trial.
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: Communication is a key health literacy educational competency in the professional training of health providers. However, students often have difficulty in applying theoretical communication models to the reality of clinical practice. Multimodal interventions based on simulation models emerge as an essential element to overcome this gap. During the simulation training, students must be aware of their communication errors and the needs that patients share in a clinical interaction.

The aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of multimodal training, which incorporates a systematic feedback guide about the student's clinical interview simulation performance, as a training complement to classical education to improve health literacy competencies and clear communication practices in health sciences students.

A randomized controlled trial will be conducted on 82 second-year nursing students recruited from the University of Cadiz. The experimental and control groups will receive the same communication multimodal training except for the inclusion of feedback on key aspects of communication for health literacy, which the experimental groups only used. Students will be assessed through clinical interview simulations by external observers. Bivariate and inferential statistical analyses will be carried out.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Second-year nursing students at the University of Cadiz enrolled in the Interpersonal Communication Skills subject.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Absence in training.
* Does not consent to participate in the study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Clinical relationship during the healthcare process
timeFrame: 5 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Algeciras
country: Spain
facility: Faculty of Nursing, University of Cadiz
state: Cadiz
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Cadiz
name: Pilar Bas-Sarmiento, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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