Effectiveness of Interprofessional Mentoring Competence Education for Dental Health Care Professionals: A Quasi-experimental Study Protocol
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 120
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Competence in mentoring students in the clinical practice
研究概览
简要总结
Clinical practice is an integral part of dental and dental hygiene students' education. The curriculum for a degree is guided by best academic practices for European undergraduate dental education, published by the Association for Dental Education in Europé (ADEE), and the dental hygienist education is based on a European qualifications framework. Interprofessional education has been recognized as a means to improve oral health professional training due to the linked form of education with improved health outcomes.
The interprofessional mentoring education is needed for the clinical practice, which has to be implemented in interprofessional teams. Clinical practice mentors need to have completed an interprofessional mentoring education. Different types of educational approaches have been previously affecting mentors' competence development in mentoring. Dental and dental hygiene students can experience team-based, interprofessional education by participating in clinical practice sessions offered in a communal learning environment. Traditional lectures can be transformed into modern, enhanced learning experiences that correspond to the new generation of students. Online learning methods are increasingly being incorporated into dental health care education. Online learning is designed to be able to support learners with technology supporting and facilitating student learning. Those methods can be used in dental health care continuous education.
This study is designed to evaluate educational intervention's effectiveness of inter-professional mentoring education on mentors' competence development of dentists and dental hygienists mentors.
详细描述
METHODOLOGY
Study setting:
The interprofessional intervention applying blended learning will be conducted at the higher education institution's interactive learning facilities, while the online interprofessional intervention will be conducted in an online learning environment in collaboration with the teaching-learning company of the Finnish Dental Association.
Study design:
This is a nonrandomized pre-post quasi-experimental study. The participants in this study will participate in interprofessional mentoring education. Participants will self-assess their level of Competence in mentoring, which includes seven dimensions; mentor characteristics, mentor motivation, mentoring practices in the workplace, reflection during mentoring, goal-oriented mentoring, student-centered evaluation and constructive feedback. There will be three assessment time points: at baseline (before education, T0), immediately after the education (T1), and 3 months after the education (T2). The control group will not receive any educational intervention. The interventions and control group will be used the same self-assessment instrument and assessment time points.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Dentist or dental hygienist
- •Working in dental health care
- •Readiness to participate in the study.
排除标准
- •Professional from a field other than dental health care
- •Unwilling to provide consent.
结局指标
主要结局
Competence in mentoring students in the clinical practice
时间窗: The Outcome Measures will be assessed a change. The change is being assessed; Pre intervention, immediately after intervention and 3 months after intervention.
Mentor competence will be measured using the Mentors' Competence Instrument (MCI), which includes seven sum-variables and 45 items. Respondents rate each item of the instrument using a four-point Likert scale.(1=totally disagree, 2=disagree to some extent, 3=agree to some extent, and 4=totally agree). Higher scores mean a better outcome.
次要结局
- Changes in mentoring students(The Outcome Measures will be assessed a change. The change is being assessed; Immediately after intervention and 3 months after intervention.)
研究者
Anna-Leena Keinanen
Principal Investigator
University of Oulu