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Filter by:How health-related information is communicated affects what is understood and might influence how people make decisions and how confident they feel in participating in clinical shared decision-making. The CICERO trial will compare three different communication tools providing information on fictional interventions for a common medical problem (i.e. social anxiety disorder) both in terms of how well interventions work (benefit) and also possible harms associated (risk). The three communication tools ("Summary of Findings table", "Kilim plot", and "Vitruvian plot") differ in how they present information: exclusively written, primarily written and partially graphical, or mixed written and visual. Each participant will be asked to go through one clinical scenario. The investigators will ask participants to familiarise themselves with the tool they have been allocated to (either a plot or a table) and then answer some validated questionnaires to measure how useful and efficient the communication strategy was. The entire study occurs online in a single study session (about 20 minutes). The results of the CICERO trial will inform how to communicate research findings to the general population, facilitating their implementation in clinical shared decision-making.
The research will be carried out in a randomized controlled experimental study design in order to evaluate the effect of standard patient simulation method on communication skills, satisfaction and self-confidence in learning of nursing students in communication with intensive care patients. The research will be conducted face-to-face with nursing students who are in the 2nd year of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Sinop University and meet the inclusion criteria in the fall semester of 2022-2023, after the necessary permissions are obtained for the study.
This randomized control study is to test effectiveness of occupational therapy support for informal caregivers of older adults with cognitive decline. Care recipients are community-living older adults who are eligible for a nursing home level of care. At baseline challenges that caregivers are facing will be expressed and individualized solutions will be identified and delivered for the treatment and educational material will be given to the control group. Two and four months later, follow up interview will be made to identify changes in burden, depression, fatigue, self-efficacy, and positive aspect of care giving. It is expected to show when the effectiveness becomes clear.
The present study investigates confidence levels reported among intern dentists who used dental anesthesia simulators, before performing local anesthesia on patients as well as patient reports on intern dentist confidence levels to deliver anesthesia injections and compare them to those who did not receive dental anesthesia simulator education. Application success rates will also be investigated and compared. The study was carried out in the dental anesthesia simulator laboratory and in the faculty clinics of Ankara University, Faculty of Dentistry. A hundred volunteer intern dentists who completed the third year of the 5-year undergraduate education program and who had not performed local anesthesia on a patient contributed. Seventy intern dentists received training on dental anesthesia simulators, and made applications on patients, while 30 intern dentists made applications without training on the dental anesthesia simulators and served as control. With a prepared single questionnaire, intern dentists made self-assessment of preparedness and confidence, educators made assessment of application success rates and treated patients evaluated intern dentists' confidence levels.
Expectant mothers can give birth to their child either by vaginal delivery or by a caesarean section (the latter can be planned or necessary during an emergency). Among the pain-relieving options for vaginal delivery, they can choose to receive epidural analgesia. In case of a caesarean section, the three anaesthetic options are epidural, spinal, or general anaesthesia. The current Irish standard of care for the provision of information and consent for epidural and spinal anaesthesia entails a consultation with the anaesthesiologists at the request of the expectant mothers, shortly before the procedure. The uniformity of the information provided with this method is being debated. Moreover, there is a lack of consensus on the best timing and setting to informing patients. With the aim of standardising the provision of information on epidural and spinal anaesthesia, the Anaesthetic Department in Sligo University Hospital has created an informational video on such procedures, in which all benefits and possible complications are explained in detail. This video can be shown to expectant mothers at the antenatal classes or in the early stage of labour, as soon as they present to the labour ward. Importantly, this video is not aimed at promoting the use of the epidural catheter, rather at providing expectant mothers all the information on the technique, benefits, side effects and possible complications of the procedure. The main objective of this study is to evaluate whether this informational video is effective in improving patient confidence and satisfaction regarding these pain-relieving options, and what is the optimal timing to show the video. Our hypothesis is that, compared to the control group, women who watch the informational video will feel more confident in choosing to receive or not these pain-relieving options and therefore have a more positive childbirth experience. This study is a randomised control trial. Randomisation will produce 4 groups in total. Depending on the group allocation, participants may or may not be shown the informational video in relation to spinal/epidural anaesthesia at various stages (antenatal classes or at the time of their arrival on the labour ward). The control group will receive the usual Irish standard of care. After delivery, the patients will be interviewed with a questionnaire that will explore: - Their satisfaction with the information provided in relation to the epidural/spinal anaesthesia; - Their confidence in choosing to receive/not to receive these pain relieving options; - Their ability to recollect the information provided on these pain-relieving options. To the extent of our knowledge, this is the first study that aims at improving parturients' sense of confidence and satisfaction in relation to the information provided on epidural and spinal anaesthesia. Should patients find this means of information beneficial to their care and overall experience, there is potential for nationwide distribution.
This three-year study will determine the effectiveness of a helmetless tackling training intervention to decrease head impact exposure in Hawaiian high school football players.