Multimodal Psychotherapy Training for Chinese Medical Students

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Mental Illness

• 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-02-01
• Status Verified: 2024-02
• Study First Submitted: 2024-02-06
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-02-06
• Study First Posted: 2024-02-14
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-02-15
• Last Update Posted: 2024-02-20
• Primary Completion: 2024-04-01
• Study Completion: 2024-04-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 180

Inclusion Criteria

1. Medical student, residents, health care providers
2. 18 years of age or older
3. Expressing an interest in psychotherapy
4. Willingness to received randomization
5. Willing to provide informed consent to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria

1. Not health care providers
2. Below 18 years old
3. Unwilling to be randomized
4. Unable to provide informed consent

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

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