Talking in primary care: testing the impact of online training in empathy and optimism for healthcare professionals
- Conditions
- OsteoarthritisMusculoskeletal DiseasesArthrosis, unspecified
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN21215037
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Southampton
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Ongoing
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 280
Current inclusion criteria as of 01/06/2020:
PRACTICES:
Primary care practices within Wessex CRN.
PRACTITIONERS
Primary care practitioners (e.g. GP, physiotherapist, or practice nurse) seeing people with OA on a regular basis. While we expect most if not all practitioner participants to be GPs, we want to try to recruit first-contact primary care physiotherapists and practice nurses too because these
practitioners (particularly physiotherapists) will be increasingly involved in managing patients with OA in primary care in the future.
PATIENTS:
All-consulters: Adults.
OA sub-sample: Consulting a participating PCP in relation to clinically diagnosed hip and/or knee OA, where OA is the only reason for consulting or one of two main reasons for consulting; minimum 45 years old (as per NICE guidance for OA).
Social media recruitment (COVID-19 adaptation)
Adults recruited through social media who have had a face-to-face, telephone or video consultation with a GP, Nurse, or Physio based in primary care.
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Previous inclusion criteria:
PRACTICES:
Primary care practices within Wessex CRN.
PRACTITIONERS
Primary care practitioners (e.g. GP, physiotherapist, or practice nurse) seeing people with OA on a regular basis. While we expect most if not all practitioner participants to be GPs, we want to try to recruit first-contact primary care physiotherapists and practice nurses too because these practitioners (particularly physiotherapists) will be increasingly involved in managing patients with OA in primary care in the future.
PATIENTS:
All-consulters: Adults.
OA sub-sample: Consulting a participating PCP in relation to clinically diagnosed hip and/or knee OA, where OA is the only reason for consulting or one of two main reasons for consulting; minimum 45 years old (as per NICE guidance for OA).
PRACTICES
Practices who participated in Empathica Development studies 2 or 4 (think aloud studies), as these involve looking at prototypes of the intervention. If they were to be included in this feasibility trial they could contaminate the control arm.
PRACTITIONERS:
None.
PATIENTS
Patients who are unable to speak English, unable to consent or complete questionnaires (for example, because of severe mental illness, severe distress, very unwell generally, and difficulty reading or writing. While we would like to include patients who are unable to speak English, the involvement of an interpreter would jeopardize a robust test of our intervention because of empathico’s emphasis on verbal as well as non-verbal communication
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Practice and Primary Care Practitioners (PCPs) recruitment will be recorded as number recruited as a function of number invited<br> 2. PCP attrition rates will be recorded as number and reason for withdrawing from the study<br> 3. Patient recruitment will be recorded as number approached and recruited per recruitment session.<br> 4. Patient attrition rates will be recorded as number, proportion and reason for withdrawal (where possible) of consented patients.<br> 5. Cluster randomisation and consent procedures will be assessed for feasibility<br> 6. Practical and ethical procedures of video-recording consultations will be assessed for feasibility<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method