Effects on Emphathy in Physiotherapy Students After Simulation as an Active Method for Learning the Clinical Enterview

Healthy Students Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effects on Emphathy in Physiotherapy Students After Simulation With Kirkpatric Evaluation as an Active Method for Learning the Clinical Enterview

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05873179
• Other study ID #: 23/29302
• Status: Completed
• Start date: May 25, 2023
• Est. completion date: September 16, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: September 2023
• Source: Mayuben Private Clinic
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of the main study is to find out the effects on empathy in physiotherapy students after role playing in the learning of the clinical history.

Description:

Thirty-one first-year physiotherapy students will carry out the role-playing methodology to learn how to take a clinical history in physiotherapy.

Before and after the realization, they will be measured by means of a validated questionnaire in Spanish, the language in which they study, the variable of empathy.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 28
• Est. completion date: September 16, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: June 2, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Men and women who are studying the first year of Physiotherapy at the Complutense University of Madrid and wish to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Students who do not wish to participate in the study.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy Students

Intervention

Other:
• role-playing for learning the clinical interview
role-playing for learning the clinical interview

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Spain	Eva María Martínez-Jimenez	Madrid

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Mayuben Private Clinic

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Jefferson Scale or Medical Empathy Scale before role playing	To determine the empathy levels of nursing students, the validated Jefferson Empathy Scale for health professions students will be used. This scale consists of 20 items, each of which is assessed using a seven-point Likert-type response scale (from 1 = 'strongly disagree' to 7 = 'strongly agree'). These items are divided into three subscales: 'perspective taking' (11 items), which refers to the cognitive aspects of empathy; 'compassionate care' (6 items), which is characterised by a combination of cognitive and affective aspects of empathy; and 'putting oneself in the patient's shoes' (three items), considered the inverse of emotional distancing . Ten of these items are positively worded, while the other 10 are negatively worded and should be reversed. The total scores range from 20 to 140 points. Higher scores reflect higher levels of empathy.	Through study completion, an average of 1 week
Primary	Empathy Quotent before role playing.	It consists of 60 items, 40 measuring empathy and 20 control measures. Scores range from 0 to 80. It measures cognitive and affective empathy in adults. Equalizer allows classification into four categories, which facilitates comparison between groups. The cut-off for each level is: from 0 to 32 scores: low empathy (average scores in Asperger Syndrome is 20), from 33 to 52 scores: average empathy (average in men 42, average in women 47), from 53 to 63 scores: above average, from 64 to 80 scores: high empathy	Through study completion, an average of 1 week
Primary	Jefferson Scale or Medical Empathy Scale after role playing	To determine the empathy levels of nursing students, the validated Jefferson Empathy Scale for health professions students will be used. This scale consists of 20 items, each of which is assessed using a seven-point Likert-type response scale (from 1 = 'strongly disagree' to 7 = 'strongly agree'). These items are divided into three subscales: 'perspective taking' (11 items), which refers to the cognitive aspects of empathy; 'compassionate care' (6 items), which is characterised by a combination of cognitive and affective aspects of empathy; and 'putting oneself in the patient's shoes' (three items), considered the inverse of emotional distancing . Ten of these items are positively worded, while the other 10 are negatively worded and should be reversed. The total scores range from 20 to 140 points. Higher scores reflect higher levels of empathy.	Through study completion, an average of 1 week
Primary	Empathy Quotent after role playing	This questionnaire has been widely used to measure empathy in health science students.13 It consists of 60 items, 40 measuring empathy and 20 control measures. Scores range from 0 to 80. It measures cognitive and affective empathy in adults. Equalizer allows classification into four categories, which facilitates comparison between groups. The cut-off for each level is: from 0 to 32 scores: low empathy (average scores in Asperger Syndrome is 20), from 33 to 52 scores: average empathy (average in men 42, average in women 47), from 53 to 63 scores: above average, from 64 to 80 scores: high empathy.	Through study completion, an average of 1 week