Impact of a Relation Training on Empathy of Medical Student

Empathy Clinical Trial

— EMPATHIE  

Official title:

Impact of a Relation Training, Balint-like, on Empathy of Medical Student in the 4th Year.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02681380
• Other study ID #: 01004
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 9, 2016
• Last updated: July 12, 2016
• Start date: September 2015
• Est. completion date: May 2016

Study information

• Verified date: July 2016
• Source: University of Paris 5 - Rene Descartes
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: IRB Ile-de-France II, Paris, France':'
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Empathy is an important skill to learn for medical student. However, learning empathy remain difficult. The investigators aim was to assess the efficacy of a specific training, Balint like, on the empathy abilities of medical students in the 4th year. The investigators planned a randomized controlled trial in 3 universities.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 352
• Est. completion date: May 2016
• Est. primary completion date: March 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Medical student in the 4th year

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Empathy

Intervention

Other:
• Relation learning
Seven session are planned. Each will be supervised by a senior, trained to supervised Balint group.
• Control group
No session will be planned for the participants.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Paris 5 - Rene Descartes	University of Paris 13, University Paris 7 - Denis Diderot

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Care	Scale to measure empathy by a simulated patient, during a simulated visit	Two weeks after the last session	No