Communication Practices to Develop the Health Literacy Competencies in Nursing Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Communication is a key health literacy educational competency in the professional training of health providers. However, students often have difficulty in applying theoretical communication models to the reality of clinical practice. Multimodal interventions based on simulation models emerge as an essential element to overcome this gap. During the simulation training, students must be aware of their communication errors and the needs that patients share in a clinical interaction.

The aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of multimodal training, which incorporates a systematic feedback guide about the student's clinical interview simulation performance, as a training complement to classical education to improve health literacy competencies and clear communication practices in health sciences students.

A randomized controlled trial will be conducted on 82 second-year nursing students recruited from the University of Cadiz. The experimental and control groups will receive the same communication multimodal training except for the inclusion of feedback on key aspects of communication for health literacy, which the experimental groups only used. Students will be assessed through clinical interview simulations by external observers. Bivariate and inferential statistical analyses will be carried out.