Intervention to Promote Medical Students Empathy, Well-being and Study emotion-a Randomized Clinical Trial.
Overview
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Mental Health
- Sponsor
- Ming Kuang
- Enrollment
- 200
- Primary Endpoint
- Medical students' empathy
- Last Updated
- 9 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The doctor-patient relationship was becoming worse. More and more work-related violence has happened to physicians and nurses. A portion of medical students felt depressed and thought that the career future was gloomy. The study was designed to measure the empathy, an vital element of professionalism, well-being of mental and study emotion. Furthermore, the investigators explored an intervention of group study to promote medical students' professionalism, mental health and study emotion.
Detailed Description
A total number of 200 junior medical students are going to be enrolled according to inclusive criteria. They are divided into two groups, one group is given education about medical humanities when the other group is not given any intervention but the same room and time.The outcomes including empathy, depression, quality of life, burnout and self-efficiency are measured before, during and after the trial.
Investigators
Ming Kuang
Professor
Sun Yat-sen University
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •1 age 18 to 25 years
- •2 junior students majoring in clinical medicine
- •3 no mental diseases previously
Exclusion Criteria
- •Did not meet inclusion criteria
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Medical students' empathy
Time Frame: 3 months
we plan to use the scale"The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy" to measure medical students' empathy
Secondary Outcomes
- Quality of life of Medical students(3 months)
- Medical students' burnout(3 months)
- Medical students' self-efficiency(3 months)
- Medical students' depression(3 months)