Culture is Care: Training Workshop for Care Workers (VerbaCurant)

Well-Being, Psychological Clinical Trial

— VerbaCurant  

Official title:

"Culture is Care: Training Workshop for Care Workers" Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06410560
• Other study ID #: ASO.IRFI.21.02
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 18, 2021
• Est. completion date: December 6, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: May 2024
• Source: Azienda Ospedaliera SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The study aims to measure the empathic capacity of healthcare professionals belonging to the Alessandria Hospital, by applying validated measuring instruments, before and after a specific training intervention. The secondary objective is to assess how the training initiative impacts on subjects with a different attitude towards cultural participation.

Description:

The aim of this project is to identify how a medical humanities intervention can act on the empathic capacity of carers through culture. One of the aims is to introduce an additional element to overcome the problems about language, prejudices, legitimisation by stakeholders who do not yet recognise the value and importance of projects promoting the relationship between culture, wellbeing and health. "Verba Curant" is aimed at generating cultural value, with the hope that it can unite the different professional fields involved and become the heritage of the community.

The project of the Alessandria Hospital Centre in collaboration with the Holden School intends to launch a series of actions aimed at promoting the beneficial impact of culture, in particular storytelling, on the caregivers and patients of the Alessandria Hospital in order to measure how much cultural enjoyment can impact on health literacy. It is planned to define a methodological tool useful for making care workers aware of the importance of culture and dialogue with patients, as well as being able to measure their degree of literacy. The tool will be the object of a widespread training action on care workers, which will also involve all the stakeholders involved in the transmission of health information to patients.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 175
• Est. completion date: December 6, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: September 6, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Health professionals related to the Alessandria Hospital

Exclusion Criteria:

• none

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Empathy

Intervention

Other:
• Training about storytelling and creative writing: 12 hours
Participants in training courses on creative writing and storytelling.
• Training only about theoretical narrative medicine: 4 hours
Participants in training courses on only theoretical narrative medicine.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Italy	Azienda Ospedaliera SS Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo	Alessandria	Piedmont

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Azienda Ospedaliera SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria	Compagnia di San Paolo, Scuola Holden Contemporary Humanities

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Italy, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Empatic capacity	Assessment of the empathic capacity of health workers through the Jefferson of Empathy scale in two groups (treated and controls).	Before the intervention (Baseline/T0) and immediately after the intervention (Final/T1)
Primary	Wellbeing	Assessment of the wellbeing level of health workers through the PGWBI questionnaire in two groups (treated and controls).	Before the intervention (Baseline/T0) and immediately after the intervention (Final/T1)