Multimodal Psychotherapy Training for Chinese Medical Students

Mental Illness Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Multimodal Psychotherapy Training Program for Medical Students in China: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06258460
• Other study ID #: 2024-0066
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 1, 2014
• Est. completion date: April 15, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: February 2024
• Source: Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital
• Contact: Luyao Zou, MS
• Phone: 8615869178144
• Email: ZouLuyao0000[@]163.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Providing evidence-based, well-designed psychotherapy teaching to train them to get a basic understanding of psychotherapy and to gain required skills for clinical practice would be fundamental to medical students, residency. This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of multimodal psychotherapy training program for medical students in China.

Description:

Background and aims: Providing evidence-based, well-designed psychotherapy teaching for medical students and residents is urgently needed. The aim of this project is to measure the effectiveness of a newly multimodal psychotherapy teaching program for medical students and residents in China. Design: This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT). The intervention group will receive a two-day multimodal-based intensive educational intervention with 8 weeks follow-up (supervision based online teaching). The wait-list control group will not receive the intervention until the end of the study. Both groups will be followed up to 8 weeks. Setting: This trial will be conduct at the Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital. Participants: This study aims to recruit about 160 medical students and residents, with approximately 80 in each group. Measurements: The primary outcome measure is the changes of the Facilitative Interpersonal Skills task (FIS) scores. Secondary outcome measures include: training program acceptability; trainees' psychotherapy knowledge; utilization of psychotherapy; and self-reported self-efficacy and self-reported motivation for psychotherapy. Comments: If this CBT-based brief and short-term psychotherapy skill training program is proven effective, the mental health impact of its expansion nation-wide could be enormous.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 180
• Est. completion date: April 15, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: April 1, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Medical student, residents, health care providers

2. 18 years of age or older

3. Expressing an interest in psychotherapy

4. Willingness to received randomization

5. Willing to provide informed consent to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Not health care providers

2. Below 18 years old

3. Unwilling to be randomized

4. Unable to provide informed consent

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Mental Disorders
• Mental Illness

Intervention

Other:
• psychotherapy training program intervention
The intervention group will receive a two-day multimodal-based intensive educational intervention of CBT with 8 weeks follow-up (supervision based online teaching).
• the wail-list control intervention
The wail-list control group will receive a message encouraging them to complete all questionnaires from baseline to the last follow-up at 8 weeks.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
China	Yanhui Liao	Hangzhou	Zhejiang

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

China, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Facilitative Interpersonal Skills task (FIS)	FIS has eight dimensions: 1) verbal fluency, 2) hope and positive expectations, 3) persuasiveness; 4) emotional expression; 5) warmth, acceptance and understanding; 6) empathy; 7) alliance-bond capacity; and 8) alliance rupture-repair responsiveness. The items are rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (i.e., skill deficit) to 5 (i.e., optimal presence of skill), with high inter-rater agreement and excellent internal consistency. Research indicates that FIS is reliable measure to evaluate performance and psychotherapeutic outcomes in training and assessing therapists, high FIS indicate superior outcomes and better therapeutic processes. It measures therapists' demonstrated ability to convey psychotherapy's common factors, such as hopefulness, warmth, persuasiveness, and emotional engagement.	8 weeks
Secondary	Training program acceptability	program acceptability will be measured for participants from the intervention group by questions for assessing program acceptability	2 days
Secondary	Trainees' psychotherapy knowledge	Knowledge about psychotherapy before and after 8 weeks will be on a 5-point scale	8 weeks
Secondary	Utilization of psychotherapy	the utilization rate of psychotherapy interventions for patients during 8 weeks follow-up will be measured.	8 weeks
Secondary	Self-reported self-efficacy	the self-efficacy will be measured by the visual analog scale (VAS) on a 10-cm line that represents a continuum between "no self-efficacy" and "the strongest self-efficacy."	8 weeks
Secondary	Self-reported motivation	the motivation will be measured by the visual analog scale (VAS) on a 10-cm line that represents a continuum between "no motivation" and "the strongest motivation."	8 weeks