Impact of a Relation Training on Empathy of Medical Student

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Empathy
• Interventions: Other: Control group; Other: Relation learning

• Registration Number: NCT02681380
• Lead Sponsor: University of Paris 5 - Rene Descartes

Brief Summary

Empathy is an important skill to learn for medical student. However, learning empathy remain difficult. The investigators aim was to assess the efficacy of a specific training, Balint like, on the empathy abilities of medical students in the 4th year. The investigators planned a randomized controlled trial in 3 universities.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-09
• Study First Submitted: 2016-02-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-02-11
• Study First Posted: 2016-02-12
• Primary Completion: 2016-03
• Study Completion: 2016-05
• Status Verified: 2016-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-07-12
• Last Update Posted: 2016-07-13

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 352

Inclusion Criteria

• Medical student in the 4th year

Exclusion Criteria

• None

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Control group	Control group	Participants of this group will have no learning related to relation with patient.
Relation learning	Relation learning	Participants of this group will benefit form a specific learning on relation, Balint like. They will have 7 sessions during 3 months.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Care	Two weeks after the last session	Scale to measure empathy by a simulated patient, during a simulated visit