Evidence-Based Medicine Clinical Trial
Official title:
Advancing Research and Clinical Practice Through Close Collaboration (ARCC): A Pilot Test of an Intervention to Improve Evidence-Based Care and Patient Outcomes
The primary aim of this pilot study is to evaluate the effects of two variations of the ARCC
Intervention Program on nursing processes and outcomes (job satisfaction, group cohesion,
EBP knowledge, EBP implementation, EBP beliefs), patient/family outcomes (e.g. pt/family
satisfaction with care), and institutional processes and outcomes (e.g. nurse-physician
collaboration, cost, RN turnover, incidence frequency relevant to the topic). Secondary aims
are to test the feasibility of study methods and reliability and validity of questionnaires.
This study is designed as a three-group randomized clinical trial with repeated measures.
Three inpatient units (medicine, surgery, surgical intensive care) will be randomly assigned
to one of three interventions: ARCC enhanced (didactic content presentations, use of an EBP
tool kit which will stay on the unit, environmental EBP prompts, availability of an EBP
coach on the unit); ARCC standard (all of the above, but without the coach); non-EBP
intervention (didactic content and environmental prompts, but not related to EBP; placebo).
The interventions will be implemented over an estimated 14 weeks, including a 4-week
training period, and an estimated 10 weeks to implement an EBP initiative that the nurses on
the two ARCC intervention units will develop.
Baseline information and questionnaires will be collected from nurses at the start of the
study, and again at completion of the intervention phase. Outcome data will be collected
from nurses approximately 10 weeks after implementation of the ARCC interventions are
completed (i.e., 22 weeks after the study is commenced). Nurse-physician collaboration data
will be collected from physicians working with study unit nurses as well as from the nurses.
Patient satisfaction data will not be separately collected in this study, but will include
use of unit-level Press-Ganey scores immediately prior to and over the study time period.
Unit level and institutional RN turnover will be tracked monthly during the entire study
period and will be compared across units at the same time as well as compared within each
study over time (i.e., unit retention during those same months in the previous year). Costs
of each EBP intervention will be tracked during the study and compared descriptively. Survey
data will be analyzed using analysis of variance statistics. Questionnaires will be tested
for reliability and construct validity. Because this is a pilot study, statistically
significant differences are not expected, however, effect sizes will be calculated
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 29 |
Est. completion date | August 2006 |
Est. primary completion date | August 2006 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | Both |
Age group | 18 Years and older |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - employed by Upstate - working full or part time on study unit - able to attend all education sessions Exclusion Criteria: - employed by temporary agency - not able to attend all education sessions |
Time Perspective: Prospective
Country | Name | City | State |
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United States | University Hospital, SUNY Upstate Medical University | Syracuse | New York |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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State University of New York - Upstate Medical University |
United States,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | EBP beliefs | baseline, week 5, week 16, week 24 | No | |
Secondary | EBP Implementation | baseline, week 5, week 16, week 24 | No |
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