Intervention to Decrease the Stigma of Nursing Students

Stigma, Social Clinical Trial

Official title:

Chinese Culture-Specific Intervention to Decrease the Stigma of Nursing Students Towards Schizophrenia--A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05413408
• Other study ID #: HSEARS20220127002
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: March 2022
• Source: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Contact: Xi CHEN, MSN
• Phone: +85291203472
• Email: 20074345r[@]connect.polyu.hk
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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Description:

Introduction Mental illness stigma is influenced by empathy, culture, and beliefs. However, few researchers specifically consider empathy, culture, and beliefs when designing interventions to reduce stigma. Schizophrenia is the most stigmatized mental illnesses. Nursing students will play the role of health educators and provide care for patients in the future. Their stigmas will negatively impact the care quality provided to people diagnosed with schizophrenia if not properly attended. This study intends to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of an education and contact intervention programme aiming to improve nursing students' knowledge and empathy of schizophrenia and decrease their negative attitudes and stigma behavior towards people with schizophrenia. Methods and Analysis This is a two-phase study design. Phase 1 development includes a literature review and a descriptive qualitative study. Phase 2 is a pilot study, the feasibility, accessibility, and efficacy of the pilot RCT will be assessed by the quantitative and qualitative study. In the first phase, descriptive qualitative study with focus group and a literature review will be used to inform the intervention development of a pilot RCT. The second phase includes a pilot RCT including 60 nursing students who 7 practice in clinical settings of a tertiary hospital. These nursing students will be randomly assigned into the intervention group and the control group. The pilot study intervention consists of three stages, including the investigative learning activity (lasting about 6 hours), the collaborative activity (lasting about 4 hours), and the higher-order thinking activity (lasting about 4 hours). Both the intervention group and the control group will be interns in the tertiary hospital simultaneously when they take part in this study. The control group go through only one stage--they will be given a book about schizophrenia knowledge and asked to finish reading it in four weeks. After the pilot intervention study, there will be a process evaluation of a qualitative interview. Both first and second phase qualitative study will use qualitative research of fourth-year nursing students being focus groups interviewed. The pilot intervention study outcomes include nursing students' knowledge, attitude, and behavioral intentions regarding stigma towards schizophrenia, and nursing students' empathy towards people with schizophrenia. The pilot intervention study effect will be evaluated by the researcher and the results of the two groups will be compared on the baseline (T0), post-intervention (T1), and three months follow-up (T2).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 60
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: March 31, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants should be 18 years old or above.

• Participants should complete all the school courses to ensure that they have similar theoretical knowledge in psychiatric nursing.

• Participants can communicate in Mandarin.

• Participants are voluntarily participating in this study.

• Participants have not participated in any other similar intervention before.

• Participants are doing a clinical practicum in Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, Hunan Province.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participants are receiving treatment of schizophrenia or other mental illness.

• Participants are lack of essential equipment to take an online interview.

• Regular personal contact with someone with schizophrenia or other mental illness (more than three times a month). Because people's prejudice may decrease when they meet and interact with people with mental illness.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Stigma, Social

Intervention

Other:
• Education and contact
The intervention consists of three phases, including investigative learning activity (this section will last about one week), higher-order thinking activity (this section will last about two hours), collaborative activity (this section will last about two hours). Both the intervention group and the control group will be interns in the hospital simultaneously. The study outcomes include nursing students' knowledge, attitude, and behavioral intentions regarding stigma towards schizophrenia. The intervention effect will be evaluated by the researcher, comparing results between and within the two groups from baseline (T0) to immediately after first and second session intervention (T1), immediately after third session intervention (T2), and three months follow-up (T3). The control group only has one session and will be given a book of schizophrenia knowledge, and they will be asked to finish reading it in four weeks.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
China	Xiang Ya Hospital of Central South University	Changsha	Hu Nan

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

China, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Subject recruitment time	The time used for subject recruitment	up to one month
Primary	Achievable recruitment rate	the ratio between the number of nursing students actually participating and the number of potential nursing students that need to participat	up to one month
Primary	Eligibility rate of participants	the number of participants eligible for this study/number of participants screened prior to eligibility assessment.	up to one month
Primary	The response rate of scales	the proportions of missing values on the items of each scale	up to three month
Primary	Drop-out rate of participants	the number of nursing students who drop out in each intervention session to the number of intervention groups	up to three month
Secondary	Knowledge of Schizophrenia as assessed by Knowledge about Schizophrenia Test (KAST)	Knowledge about Schizophrenia Test (KAST)-Chinese version will be used to measure the stigma-related schizophrenia knowledge of participants. KAST, including 18 items, demonstrate an acceptable reliability coefficient of 0.68. The content validity index of items (I-CVI) ranged from 0.83 to 1.00, while the S-CVI/UA and S-CVI/Ave were 0.83 and 0.97, respectively, and known-group validity was satisfactory.	up to three month
Secondary	Attitudes of Schizophrenia as assessed by Mental Illness Clinicians' Attitudes Scale (MICA)	Mental Illness Clinicians' Attitudes Scale (MICA)- Chinese version will be used to measure stigma-related mental illness attitude of participants. MICA is a six-point scale that includes 16 items, and response options are from 1=totally agree to 6=totally disagree. The total score range is taken from 16-96. The internal consistency 66 is 0.72-0.75, and test-retest reliability is 0.76-0.87 of MICA in the Chinese version.A lower score indicates participants having a positive attitude towards schizophrenia.	up to three month
Secondary	Stigma behavior toward Schizophrenia as assessed by Reported and Intended Behavior Scale (RIBS)	Reported and Intended Behavior Scale (RIBS)-Chinese version will be used to measure the stigma-related mental illness behavior of participants. RIBS is a five-point scale that includes eight items, and response options are designed as 1=totally disagree, 2=disagree, 3=do not know, 4=agree, 5=totally agree. The total score range is taken from 4-20 of items 5-8. The internal consistency is 0.82, and test-retest reliability is 0.68 of RIBS in the Chinese version.The higher score indicates the participants are more willing to contact people who have schizophrenia.	up to three month
Secondary	Empathy toward Schizophrenia as assessed by Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Health Profession Students (JSE-HPS)	Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Health Profession Students (JSE-HPS)- Chinese version will be used to measure the nursing students' empathy towards people with schizophrenia. S-JSE-HPS is a seven-point scale that includes twenty items, and response options are designed as 1=totally disagree to 7= totally agree. The total score range is taken from 20-140. The internal consistency is 0.93, and test-retest reliability is 0.92 of JSE-HPS in the Chinese version.The higher score indicates the participants have greater empathic attitudes toward schizophrenia.	up to three month