Multimodal Psychotherapy Training for Chinese Medical Students
- Conditions
- Mental Illness
- Interventions
- Other: the wail-list control interventionOther: psychotherapy training program intervention
- Registration Number
- NCT06258460
- Lead Sponsor
- Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital
- Brief Summary
Providing evidence-based, well-designed psychotherapy teaching to train them to get a basic understanding of psychotherapy and to gain required skills for clinical practice would be fundamental to medical students, residency. This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of multimodal psychotherapy training program for medical students in China.
- Detailed Description
Background and aims: Providing evidence-based, well-designed psychotherapy teaching for medical students and residents is urgently needed. The aim of this project is to measure the effectiveness of a newly multimodal psychotherapy teaching program for medical students and residents in China.
Design: This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT). The intervention group will receive a two-day multimodal-based intensive educational intervention with 8 weeks follow-up (supervision based online teaching). The wait-list control group will not receive the intervention until the end of the study. Both groups will be followed up to 8 weeks.
Setting: This trial will be conduct at the Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital.
Participants: This study aims to recruit about 160 medical students and residents, with approximately 80 in each group.
Measurements: The primary outcome measure is the changes of the Facilitative Interpersonal Skills task (FIS) scores. Secondary outcome measures include: training program acceptability; trainees' psychotherapy knowledge; utilization of psychotherapy; and self-reported self-efficacy and self-reported motivation for psychotherapy.
Comments: If this CBT-based brief and short-term psychotherapy skill training program is proven effective, the mental health impact of its expansion nation-wide could be enormous.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 180
- Medical student, residents, health care providers
- 18 years of age or older
- Expressing an interest in psychotherapy
- Willingness to received randomization
- Willing to provide informed consent to participate in the study
- Not health care providers
- Below 18 years old
- Unwilling to be randomized
- Unable to provide informed consent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description the wail-list control group the wail-list control intervention After consent is given, participants who are allocated to the wail-list control group will receive a message encouraging them to complete all questionnaires from baseline to the last follow-up at 8 weeks. They will receive messages via WeChat to thank them for being in the study and reminding them of the time until the completion of the study at 8 weeks follow-up. They will receive a digital booklet of the psychotherapy training program via the WeChat individual messaging platform at recruitment, or a hard copy on request. After the trial ends, participants in the control arm will be able to receive the psychotherapy training program for free. the two-day psychotherapy training program with 8-week follow-ups intervention group psychotherapy training program intervention All participants from the intervention group will receive the two-day psychotherapy training program. They will receive a hard copy booklet of the psychotherapy training program at recruitment. In addition, supervision-based group meeting will be hold at week 1, 2, 4, and 8 during follow-ups, and each meeting will be lasted for approximately two hours. At each follow-up meeting, the teachers, including psychotherapists and psychiatrists, will be prepared to answer any psychotherapy related questions, encourage them to practice psychological interventions, and provide more information for participants' clinical application of psychotherapy.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Facilitative Interpersonal Skills task (FIS) 8 weeks FIS has eight dimensions: 1) verbal fluency, 2) hope and positive expectations, 3) persuasiveness; 4) emotional expression; 5) warmth, acceptance and understanding; 6) empathy; 7) alliance-bond capacity; and 8) alliance rupture-repair responsiveness. The items are rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (i.e., skill deficit) to 5 (i.e., optimal presence of skill), with high inter-rater agreement and excellent internal consistency. Research indicates that FIS is reliable measure to evaluate performance and psychotherapeutic outcomes in training and assessing therapists, high FIS indicate superior outcomes and better therapeutic processes. It measures therapists' demonstrated ability to convey psychotherapy's common factors, such as hopefulness, warmth, persuasiveness, and emotional engagement.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Training program acceptability 2 days program acceptability will be measured for participants from the intervention group by questions for assessing program acceptability
Trainees' psychotherapy knowledge 8 weeks Knowledge about psychotherapy before and after 8 weeks will be on a 5-point scale
Utilization of psychotherapy 8 weeks the utilization rate of psychotherapy interventions for patients during 8 weeks follow-up will be measured.
Self-reported self-efficacy 8 weeks the self-efficacy will be measured by the visual analog scale (VAS) on a 10-cm line that represents a continuum between "no self-efficacy" and "the strongest self-efficacy."
Self-reported motivation 8 weeks the motivation will be measured by the visual analog scale (VAS) on a 10-cm line that represents a continuum between "no motivation" and "the strongest motivation."
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Yanhui Liao
🇨🇳Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China