Interprofessional Versus Monoprofessional Case-based Learning in Childhood Cancer

Education Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Interprofessional Versus Monoprofessional Case-based Learning in Childhood Cancer and the Effect on Healthcare Professionals' Interprofessional Attitudes: a Randomized Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Terminated

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04204109
• Other study ID #: Mtopperzer
• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 25, 2020
• Est. completion date: May 5, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: September 2020
• Source: Rigshospitalet, Denmark
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Interprofessional education in childhood cancer is a multifaceted field. It involves multiple healthcare professionals with general and specialised knowledge and skills. Complex treatment, care and rehabilitation require continuous professional development and maintenance of healthcare professionals' competencies in their own professional field. Limited knowledge exists on comparing interprofessional and monoprofessional education and only few randomised studies have evaluated the effectiveness and efficiency of interprofessional education. One clinical area among others where healthcare professionals collaborate is in gastrointestinal toxicities and side effects. These are frequent and potentially severe clinical problems in childhood cancer that involve multiple healthcare professionals.

Objectives: To study the effect of interprofessional versus monoprofessional case-based learning on healthcare professionals' attitudes on interprofessional learning and collaboration.

Trial design: single centre investigator-initiated cluster randomized trial

Methods:

Participants: Employees with patient-related work at the childhood cancer departments and affiliated with childhood cancer at Rigshospitalet are eligible for inclusion. The setting is the childhood cancer department.

Outcome: The primary outcome is to improve healthcare professionals' interprofessional attitude.

Measurements:

The primary outcome is attitudes measured by the Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale (AITCS). Secondary outcome is Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) Questionnaire, and Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ). Knowledge will be measured by written test as multiple choice questionnaire (MCQ).

Timepoints: The self-reported questionnaires will be distributed to the participants approximately one month before and one month after the educational intervention. On the day of the educational intervention, participants will answer the multiple choice questionnaire.

Analysis: Linear mixed regression will be used to compare differences in mean scores postintervention, adjusted for differences between the two groups.

Results: We hypothesise that interprofessional case-based learning positively affects the healthcare professionals' interprofessional attitudes.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Terminated
• Enrollment: 49
• Est. completion date: May 5, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: March 11, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthcare professionals at the in-patient department for children and adolescents with cancer

• Healthcare professionals at the in-patient department for transplantation of children and adolescents with cancer

• Healthcare professionals at the out-patient departments for children and adolescents with cancer department

• Healthcare professionals affiliated with Juliane Marie Centre at Rigshospitalet

• Employees in a supportive function to the department for children and adolescents with cancer, such as psychologists, priests, pedagogues, social workers, experts in pain relief in children, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and dieticians.

• Teachers employed at a local public school but have their main working hours at the department.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Staff taking part in the intervention or in the planning of the intervention

• Management with staff responsibilities

• Lack of informed consent

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Case-based Learning
• Continuing Professional Development
• Education
• Interprofessional Education

Intervention

Other:
• Interprofessional case-based learning
The trial is an educational intervention where groups of healthcare professionals receive the same case-based learning: one group receives case-based learning with healthcare professionals of various professional backgrounds (experimental) versus another group receiving case-based learning with healthcare professionals exclusively of the same professional background (control). The educational intervention consists of a case that is developed for the purpose of the intervention. The participants in the experimental group will be randomised into six teams who will receive interprofessional case-based learning. The experimental group will be made up of healthcare professionals from various groups. The participants in the control group will be randomised in groups of one profession

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Denmark	Juliane Marie Centre for Women, Children and Reproduction (JMC), Rigshospitalet (RH), Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark.	Copenhagen

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Rigshospitalet, Denmark	Danish Child Cancer Foundation

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Denmark, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in the participants' interprofessional collaboration	Primary outcome: change in the participants' interprofessional attitude to collaboration measured by Assessment of interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale (AITCS). The scale contains three main categories: 1)Partnership/shared decision making (19 items), 2) Collaboration (11 items), 3) Coordination (7 items) that are rated on a scale from 1-5 (1= "never"; 2= "rarely"; 3="occasionally"; 4="most of the time"; 5="Always"). The scales procedures scores from 48 to 240. Higher scores indicate a better outcome	Measured 1 month before intervention and 1-3 months after intervention in both groups
Secondary	Change in the participants' interprofessional attitudes	Secondary outcome: measured by Change in Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Survey (RIPLS). 29 items on a five-point scale 4 subscales; 1)Teamwork and collaboration, 2)Negative professional identity, 3)Positive professional identity, 4)Roles and responsibility.; The items are rated on a scale from 1-5 (1= "strongly disagree"; 2= "agree"; 3="undecided"; 4="agree"; 5="strongly agree"). Higher scores indicate a better outcome	Measured 1 month before intervention and 1-3 months after intervention in both groups
Secondary	Change in participants' knowledge of gastrointestinal toxicities and side effects	measured by written test as multiple choice questionnaire (MCQ). There are three options to chose from in this multiple choice questionnaire, one correct answer and two wrong answers. This MCQ is developed and validated for the purpose of this particular education session	measured at the actual intervention day 30 minutes prior to the session and immediately after the education session (maximum 15 minutes after)

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