N/A
N=17
Mobile Learning to Improve Clinician's Ability to Break Bad News
Education
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03804918 ↗Enrolled (actual)
17
Serious AEs
—
Results posted
Oct 2020
Primary outcome: Primary: Change in Self-assessed Likert Scale Relating to Confidence in Breaking Bad News at Baseline and Post-intervention. — 1; 0; 1; 0 Participants
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- VitalTips mobile application (Other)
- Age
- Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- Imperial College London
- Primary completion
- Aug 2019
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Change in Self-assessed Likert Scale Relating to Confidence in Breaking Bad News at Baseline and Post-intervention. |
1; 0; 1; 0; 12; 13 | — |
| PRIMARY Change in Simulated Patient Encounter Marking Scores Related to Breaking Bad News at Baseline and Post-intervention. |
10.15; 12.25; 13.31; 20.85; 7.71; 10.77 | — |
Summary
Design:
A pre-post mixed methods pilot study. All participants granted access to a breaking bad news mobile learning resource (VitalTips).
Baseline and post-intervention questionnaires, pre- and post-intervention simulated patient encounters, and post-intervention semi-structured interviews.
Objective:
To assess if a selected breaking bad news mobile learning resource can improve the ability of clinicians to break bad news.
Population/Eligibility:
15-20 junior doctors and nurses working within two NHS hospitals trusts and one private hospital in England.
Duration:
25th February 2019 to 8th July 2019.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Working and training within NHS England and a private healthcare hospital.
- Junior doctor, pre-certificate of completion of training (of any specialty).
- Junior nurse band 5 to 6 (or equivalent) from any specialty.
- Over the age of 18.
- Able to communicate and write in English.
- Willing to engage with mobile learning resources as an additional task to their clinical role, ensuring their learning does not take time out of their clinical commitments.
Exclusion Criteria
- Medical and nursing students.
- Clinicians who have completed their training programmes i.e. medical or nursing consultants, matrons.
- Retired clinicians.
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03804918). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.