Effects of Scenario-based Education Initiative and OSCE for Recognition and Management of Delirium

Delirium Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluating the Effects of Implementing a Scenario-based Education Initiative and OSCE for Recognition and Management of Delirium: a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05623475
• Other study ID #: N20210318
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 25, 2021
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: October 2022
• Source: Taipei Medical University
• Contact: Kee-Hsin Chen, PhD
• Phone: +886-2-27361661
• Email: keehsin[@]tmu.edu.tw
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Delirium is a disturbance in consciousness with reduced ability to focus, sustain, or shift attention that occurs over a short period of time and tends to fluctuate over the course of the day. 50% to 81.7% had delirium during their ICU hospitalization. Delirium is associated with increased physical restraint, ventilation use, length of ICU stay, and mortality. However, there is no established delirium care pathway in target hospital. Chen et al. (2014) demonstrated that structured assessment stations with immediate feedback may improve overall learning efficiency over an EBP workshop alone. However, no published delirium care education study has used OSCEs as an intervention for healthcare professionals. The aim is to evaluate the effects of implementing a Scenario- based education intervention, including objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) on delirium care among healthcare professionals. This is a knowledge translation research, builds on eight years of delirium care research in University of Wollongong, Australia. The research will be undertaken at ICUs in a medical center in northern of Taiwan. There are two phases: (1) systematic review to identify delirium screen tool, and (2) a randomized controlled trial was conducted to determine the effects of implementing a Scenario-based education intervention, including OSCE (experimental group), and on-line education only (control group) focused on recognition and management of delirium. The hypothesis is: Scenario-based education intervention, including OSCE can increase the competence and self-efficacy among healthcare professionals in delirium care.

Description:

OSCEs are an integral aspect of all levels of medical education but limited to undergraduate nursing and allied health education. OSCEs are rarely used in the workplace as learning activities with nursing and allied health clinicians. This is the reason why this education initiative was innovative. OSCEs are simulated 'real life' clinical scenarios presented to clinicians who are required to demonstrate to an assessor the clinical tasks which form an OSCE scenario.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 116
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: January 31, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Registered nurse worked in acute care unit and care with critical patients

2. Licensed physician which undertake the post graduate year program worked in acute care unit and care with critical patients

Exclusion Criteria:

1.Unwilling to involved the research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Delirium

Intervention

Behavioral:
• OSCEs
Scenario-based education intervention, including objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs)
• Lecture
Face-to-face Education using Delirium Care Flip Chart
• E-learning
Including 7 parts of delirium care video

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	Taipei Medical University Hospital	Taipei

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Taipei Medical University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Delirium Knowledge and Skills Test (included 18 questions)	Change from Baseline Delirium Knowledge and Skills at the time Immediately after the intervention and Six weeks	T0(Baseline), T1(Immediately after the intervention), T2(Six weeks after the intervention)