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