Medical Education Intervention for Medical Students

Phase 3

• Conditions: Mental Health
• Interventions: Other: Education of medical humanities

• Registration Number: NCT02645643
• Lead Sponsor: Ming Kuang

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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-12
• Study First Submitted: 2015-12-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-01-04
• Study First Posted: 2016-01-05
• Status Verified: 2016-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-05-25
• Last Update Posted: 2016-05-26
• Primary Completion: 2016-09
• Study Completion: 2016-09

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
intervention group	Education of medical humanities	Medical students rolled into this group would accept education of medical humanities.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Medical students' empathy	3 months	we plan to use the scale"The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy" to measure medical students' empathy

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of life of Medical students	3 months	we plan to use the scale"MOS SF-8 Health Survey" to measure medical students' quality of life
Medical students' burnout	3 months	we plan to use the scale"Maslach Burnout Inventory" to measure medical students' burnout
Medical students' self-efficiency	3 months	we plan to use the "General Self-Efficacy Scale" to measure medical students' self-efficiency
Medical students' depression	3 months	we plan to use the "Patient Health Questionnaire-9" to measure medical students' depression