The Effect of Immediate Feedback on Long-term Blood Pressure Measurement Skills: a Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT03143699 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: 1.712.520
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 120
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The present study aims to investigate the effect of immediate feedback on long-term blood pressure measurement skills. This is a randomized controlled trial including first year students from a Brazilian medical school, which will be randomized in two groups: an intervention group (submitted to a training on blood pressure measurement skills and an immediate feedback) and a control group (submitted to a training on blood pressure measurement skills, but with no immediate feedback). Then, students will be assessed 3 months after the feedback in order to see whether there will be a difference between groups. Our hypothesis is that students submitted to immediate feedback would have better scores in the blood-pressure measurement skills after 3 months. A knowledge questionnaire as well as a standardized patient scenario will be used to assess students' knowledge and skills.

Conditions

Education, Medical; Blood Pressure

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Assess blood-pressure measurement skills

  Blood pressure measurement skills checklist - following the criteria adopted by international (Eighth Joint National Committee) and the Brazilian guidelines (VII Brazilian Guidelines on Hipertension)

  3 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Assess blood-pressure measurement knowledge

  3 months

Study Arms (2)

Immediate feedback

EXPERIMENTAL

Submitted to a training on blood pressure measurement skills and an immediate feedback after their encounter with an standardized patient - SP

Other: Immediate Feedback

Students with no immediate feedback

NO INTERVENTION

Submitted to a training on blood pressure measurement skills, but without an immediate feedback after their encounter with an standardized patient - SP

Interventions

Immediate Feedback OTHER

Students will be trained to measure blood pressure in the same way, with a brief 4-hour theoretical-practical intervention. After the training, students will measure the blood pressure of a standardized patient and observers will evaluate them using a checklist. After that, students from the intervention group will receive an immediate feedback based on the previous literature. Briefly, feedback will be based on what was directly observed and will be phrased in non-judgmental language, following the Pendleton model.

Immediate feedback

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• students officially registered in the first semester of the medical school and older than 18 years old.

You may not qualify if:

• those absent in any part of the blood pressure measurement training and those who not signed the consent term

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Federal University of Juiz de Fora: lead

Study Sites (1)

Faculdade de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde de Juiz de Fora

Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, 36.010-560, Brazil

RECRUITING

Study Officials

• Giancarlo Lucchetti, MD, PhD

  Federal University of Juiz de Fora

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Central Study Contacts

Margareth AB e Castro, RN

CONTACT

55(32)998193700; maghms@terra.com.br

Oscarina S Ezequiel, MD, PhD

CONTACT

55 (32) 2102-3845; oscarinaufjf@gmail.com

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 4, 2017
• First Posted: May 8, 2017
• Study Start: March 28, 2017
• Primary Completion: November 6, 2017
• Study Completion: February 28, 2018
• Last Updated: August 3, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

BR (1)