The Effect of Immediate Feedback on Long-term Blood Pressure Measurement Skills: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Blood Pressure Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Immediate Feedback on Long-term Blood Pressure Measurement Skills: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03143699
• Other study ID #: 1.712.520
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 4, 2017
• Last updated: August 1, 2017
• Start date: March 28, 2017
• Est. completion date: February 28, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: May 2017
• Source: Federal University of Juiz de Fora
• Contact: Margareth AB e Castro, RN
• Phone: 55(32)998193700
• Email: maghms[@]terra.com.br
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The present study aims to investigate the effect of immediate feedback on long-term blood pressure measurement skills. This is a randomized controlled trial including first year students from a Brazilian medical school, which will be randomized in two groups: an intervention group (submitted to a training on blood pressure measurement skills and an immediate feedback) and a control group (submitted to a training on blood pressure measurement skills, but with no immediate feedback). Then, students will be assessed 3 months after the feedback in order to see whether there will be a difference between groups. Our hypothesis is that students submitted to immediate feedback would have better scores in the blood-pressure measurement skills after 3 months. A knowledge questionnaire as well as a standardized patient scenario will be used to assess students' knowledge and skills.

Description:

There are several studies evaluating the role of feedback in medical education, showing promising outcomes. Although, immediate feedback is associated with better knowledge and skills in short-term, few studies have assessed whether immediate feedback could impact the maintenance of skills. The present study aims to investigate the effect of immediate feedback on long-term blood pressure measurement skills. This is a randomized controlled trial including first year students from a Brazilian medical school, which will be randomized in two groups: an intervention group (submitted to a training on blood pressure measurement skills and an immediate feedback after their encounter with an standardized patient - SP) and a control group (submitted to the same training on blood pressure measurement skills, but with no immediate feedback after the SP encounter).

Both groups will be trained to measure blood pressure in the same way, with a brief 4-hour theoretical-practical intervention. After the training, students will measure the blood pressure of a standardized patient and observers will evaluate them using a checklist.

Then, students will have no other exposure to the BP training for three months and they will be invited again to participate in another SP encounter. Differences on BP skills after 3 months between those exposed to immediate feedback and those not exposed to immediate feedback would be investigated.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 120
• Est. completion date: February 28, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: November 6, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria:

• students officially registered in the first semester of the medical school and older than 18 years old.

Exclusion criteria:

• those absent in any part of the blood pressure measurement training and those who not signed the consent term

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Blood Pressure
• Education, Medical

Intervention

Other:
• Immediate Feedback
Students will be trained to measure blood pressure in the same way, with a brief 4-hour theoretical-practical intervention. After the training, students will measure the blood pressure of a standardized patient and observers will evaluate them using a checklist. After that, students from the intervention group will receive an immediate feedback based on the previous literature. Briefly, feedback will be based on what was directly observed and will be phrased in non-judgmental language, following the Pendleton model.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Brazil	Faculdade de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde de Juiz de Fora	Juiz de Fora	Minas Gerais

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Federal University of Juiz de Fora

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Brazil, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Assess blood-pressure measurement skills	Blood pressure measurement skills checklist - following the criteria adopted by international (Eighth Joint National Committee) and the Brazilian guidelines (VII Brazilian Guidelines on Hipertension)	3 months
Secondary	Assess blood-pressure measurement knowledge	Blood pressure measurement knowledge test - following the criteria adopted by international (Eighth Joint National Committee) and the Brazilian guidelines (VII Brazilian Guidelines on Hipertension)	3 months