Simulation in Physical Therapy Students

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Simulation Training
• Interventions: Behavioral: Pedagogyc Strategy

• Registration Number: NCT04428892
• Lead Sponsor: Universidad de la Sabana

Brief Summary

This randomized trial included physiotherapy students, randomized in two groups, experimental one included simulation for developed competencies related to clinical reasoning in physiotherapy interventions for people with low back pain. The second group developed role-playing. this protocol allows us to compare two strategies with simulation for to promote clinical decisions in physiotherapy practice.

Detailed Description

Low back pain (LBP) is symptomatology with a high global prevalence; health professionals, including physiotherapists, must have the skills to create professional interaction plans that permit a better quality of life for consultants. Clinical simulation can be a pedagogic setting that facilitates students with adequate training to acquire skills that improve professional reasoning in this clinical situation. The objective of this study was to compare the effects of clinical simulation with a simulated patient (SP) versus simulation with role-playing (RP) in physiotherapy students for decision-making in clinical skills while caring for a person with LBP. Methods. An experimental study, with 42 participants from two Colombian universities, randomized into two groups (SP n = 21, RP n = 21). The clinical skill was evaluated during the interaction with a person with LBP for which the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE-ML) was validated for individuals with low back pain; thereafter, a pedagogical method was conducted that included clinical simulation and, finally, the OSCE-ML was applied again to compare both groups.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-03-01
• Primary Completion: 2019-05-20
• Study Completion: 2019-12-20
• Status Verified: 2020-06
• Study First Submitted: 2020-06-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-06-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-06-09
• Study First Posted: 2020-06-11
• Last Update Posted: 2020-06-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

• Physiotherapy students in five-semester from Universidad de La Sabana and Universidad de Boyacá

Exclusion Criteria

• under-age subjects
• those who had been internally or externally transferred from another academic program in health,
• exchange students
• those repeating
• with prior experiences in simulated practice in other assignments

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Conventional Pedagogical strategy	Pedagogyc Strategy	received a class session based on a "role playing" simulation strategy, structured for the same purpose established in the SP group. This session lasted approximately 120 minutes, and the learning environment was the classroom in which students assumed different roles to act out; some of them acted as people with LBP and others as physiotherapists
Clinical Simulation	Pedagogyc Strategy	The group denominated SP received a teaching strategy based on a class session with simulated practice for decision-making in clinical skills when caring for a person with LBP. Each session lasted approximately 120 minutes, and the clinical case used for the SP sessions was subjected to face validity with experts in the area of study.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
clinical reasoning	1 Month	The Objetive structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE) was designed and validated, with the proposal to asses the physiotherapeutic clinical reasoning in Low Back Pain people, The OCSE have included 7 stations for assesing the clinical reasoning students.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Carolina Sandoval; 🇨🇴 Tunja, Colombia