Soft Skills and Surgical Performance

NCT01137305 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Katja Maschuw, MD
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 50
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

Background and hypothesis: Virtual reality (VR) training in minimal invasive surgery (MIS) is known to be feasible and beneficial in surgical residency. Research on stress- coping in surgical trainees indicate an additional impact of soft skills on VR- performance. Thus to hypothesize soft skills predicting surgical performance in a VR- setting. Method: A prospective randomized controlled single center educational trial was carried out to evaluate the impact of structured VR- training and defined soft skills such as self- efficacy, stress- coping and motivation on VR- performance.

Conditions

Delivery of Health Care

Keywords

Virtual reality; surgical training; Health Care [N]

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• VR- performance after training

  Outcome measurement comprised defined parameters of VR- performance including "time to complete task", economy of instrument motion" and "tissue damage" within the most complex module "diathermy cutting" as primary endpoint.

  Three months

Interventions

VR- training OTHER

Prospective randomization if 50 subjects to either three months of structured VR- training or no training; basic VR- skills assessment and a serial assessment of defined soft skills: self- efficacy, stress- coping and motivation prior to randomization; basic VR- skills measured within seven modules of the VR- simulator LapSim®: "camera and instrument navigation", "coordination", "grasping", "lifting and grasping", "clip applying" and "diathermy cutting" in different levels of difficulty- medium and hard referring to "time to complete task", "economy of instrument motion" and "tissue damage"; intervention group: sessions of 45 minutes each twice a week for three months; control group: no training

Also known as: Educational trial within surgical trainees

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• surgical residency not exceeding the first year of surgical training
• limited experience in MIS (camera navigation in laparoscopic cholecystectomies only)
• informed consent to study procedures and publication of anonymized data

You may not qualify if:

• surgical residency exceeding the first year of surgical training
• experience in MIS exceeding camera navigation in laparoscopic cholecystectomies
• lack of informed consent

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Philipps University Marburg: lead

Study Officials

• Iyad Hassan, MD

  Department of Visceral-, Thoracic- and Vascular Surgery, Philipps- University Marburg, Germany

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: TRIPLE
• Who Masked: CARE PROVIDER, INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 2, 2010
• First Posted: June 4, 2010
• Study Start: June 1, 2008
• Primary Completion: January 1, 2009
• Study Completion: May 1, 2009
• Last Updated: June 17, 2010

Record last verified: 2010-06