Communication Skills Training and Competency Assessment for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellows

Communication Clinical Trial

Official title:

Communication Skills Training and Competency Assessment for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellows

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01249170
• Other study ID #: 2010B0299
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 16, 2010
• Last updated: November 15, 2013
• Start date: November 2010
• Est. completion date: December 2012

Study information

• Verified date: November 2013
• Source: Ohio State University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Study to determine if pulmonary/critical care fellows will demonstrate increased competency in the behavioral skills necessary to facilitate family meetings focused on discussions of goals of care in the ICU from pre- to post-communication skills training.

Description:

The investigators hypothesize that pulmonary/critical care fellows will demonstrate increased competency in the behavioral skills necessary to facilitate family meetings focused on discussions of goals of care in the ICU from pre- to post-communication skills training.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 16
• Est. completion date: December 2012
• Est. primary completion date: June 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 89 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• First- and second-year pulmonary/critical care fellows

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Communication

Intervention

Behavioral:
• First year program
Information on group that underwent new educational program

Other:
• Control comparison
Information from group that did not undergo new first year program

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	The Ohio State University	Columbus	Ohio

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Jennifer McCallister MD

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Subject self evaluation of training and skill	Determine level of prior training in communication skills and assess trainee attitudes about goals of care communication training	Measured at basline (Month 0)	No
Secondary	Self versus trainer comparison assessment	Compare pulmonary/critical care fellows' self-report of confidence and competence in performing goals of care discussions during family meetings with faculty observed competence in performance of this skill.	Measured at basline (Month 0), during intervention and End of Study (Month 12)	No
Secondary	Evaluation of Effectiveness of intervention	Evaluate the effectiveness of a behavioral skills checklist as a formative feedback tool to improve the ability of pulmonary/critical care fellows to utilize the five key elements of patient-centered communication	Measured at End of Study (Month 12)	No
Secondary	Evaluate communication skills curriculum	Determine the effect of the implementation of a communication skills curriculum for pulmonary/critical care fellows on the physician communication domain of family satisfaction survey scores in the ICU.	Measured at End of Study (Month 12)	No