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Enhancing the quality of patient care and healthcare staff well-being through an empathy immersion educational programme in New Zealand: EmpEd study

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Psychological wellbeing
Stress
Mental Health - Studies of normal psychology, cognitive function and behaviour
Registration Number
ACTRN12621001658808
Lead Sponsor
Victoria University Of Wellington
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruiting
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
410
Inclusion Criteria

Healthcare team participants inclusion criteria:
• All healthcare staff employed to work in the clinical sites. This includes registered and non-registered staff, such as pharmacists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, nurses, doctors, health care assistants, ward clerks, and domestic services staff.
• Give informed consent

Patient participant inclusion criteria:
• Capacity to give informed consent
• Ready for discharge, this is to allow patients to reflect on their experiences and interactions in a non-acute phase of their illness.
• Ability to understand, read and write English.
• Ability to provide consent by completion of the survey.

Family/whanau participant inclusion criteria:
• Capacity to give informed consent
• Have been actively supporting the patient during their admission (i.e., visited patient at least once per week)
• Ability to understand, read and write English

Exclusion Criteria

Healthcare team participants exclusion criteria:
•Working across both the intervention and control wards
•Agency staff working across multiple wards
•Medical students
•Nursing students
•Allied health students

Patient participant exclusion criteria:
•Unable to give informed consent
•Not predicted to be discharged from the ward between the data collection periods
•Under the age of 18 years

Family/whanau participant exclusion criteria:
•Has not been involved in regular support of the patient (i.e. visited less than once a week)
•Unable to give informed consent
•Under the age of 18 years

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
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Secondary Outcome Measures
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