Improving Clinical Decision Making Skills for Myanmar Physical Therapists by Series of Workshop

NCT03149146 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: MU
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 59
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study aims to improve the Clinical Decision Making (CDM) skills of a group of Myanmar physical therapists by series of educational workshops that will introduce them to and guide them through the decision making process by using the CDM workbook. Participants will be separated into two groups, CDM workshop group and CDM workbook group. There will be three time assessments; one pre-workshop/ workbook and two post-workshop/workbook assessments by using Clinical Decision Making (CDM) assessment worksheet.

Conditions

Cognitive Change

Keywords

Clinical Decision Making; Myanmar Physical therapists; Educational workshop

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Pre-Intervention Clinical Decision Making (CDM) Assessment

  The CDM worksheet represents the knowledge for four main elements of Clinical Decision Making (CDM) process; Health Condition, Examination, Evaluation and Intervention. These four elements represent the sequence of content which will include in the CDM education workshop. The CDM Assessment Worksheet includes three types of question: two categorical measurement level and one open-ended qualitative type of question.

  Baseline (before intervention)

• Immediate-post Intervention Clinical Decision Making (CDM) Assessment

  The CDM worksheet represents the knowledge for four main elements of Clinical Decision Making (CDM) process; Health Condition, Examination, Evaluation and Intervention. These four elements represent the sequence of content which will include in the CDM education workshop. The CDM Assessment Worksheet includes three types of question: two categorical measurement level and one open-ended qualitative type of question.

  Immediate post-Intervention

• One month post-Intervention Clinical Decision Making (CDM) Assessment

  The CDM worksheet represents the knowledge for four main elements of Clinical Decision Making (CDM) process; Health Condition, Examination, Evaluation and Intervention. These four elements represent the sequence of content which will include in the CDM education workshop. The CDM Assessment Worksheet includes three types of question: two categorical measurement level and one open-ended qualitative type of question.

  One-month post-Intervention

Study Arms (2)

Clinical Decision Making (CDM) Workshop

EXPERIMENTAL

Series of CDM educational workshop will be conducted for one group of participants and they will be guided the CDM process through the two clinical practice models; Therapeutic process (TP) and International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).

Other: Clinical Decision Making (CDM) Workshop

Clinical Decision Making Workbook

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants will receive Clinical Decision Making (CDM) workbook which will be used to teach the Clinical Decision Making process in the four days workshop.

Other: Clinical Decision Making (CDM) Workbook

Interventions

Clinical Decision Making (CDM) Workshop OTHER

Participants will be provided the Clinical Decision Making workbook which will be used as a guideline to practice decision making. A workshop was chosen rather than other methods of presenting the guideline so that participants could receive feedback and guidance from the instructors and from the other participants. Active learning educational environment will be encouraged and the workshop require group and individual participation and also assist the participants in reflection on their decisions.

Clinical Decision Making (CDM) Workshop

Clinical Decision Making (CDM) Workbook OTHER

Participants are encouraged to read and do exercises which was written in the workbook for a week and they also are asked to recall their recent patient case or use their patient as the example case and answer the questions from the Clinical Decision Making workbook.

Clinical Decision Making Workbook

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Currently practicing physical therapists with at least two years of clinical experiences.
• Participants have to be available to join all the 4 days of CDM workshop which will be held at the University of Medical Technology (UMT), Yangon, Myanmar.

You may not qualify if:

• Physical therapists with less than 2 years of clinical experiences.
• Physical therapists who were not educated in Myanmar.
• Physical therapists who are not available to join all 4 days of CDM workshop.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Mahidol University: lead
• University of Medical Technology, Yangon: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Medical Technology

Yangon, Insein, 11011, Burma

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Wainwright SF, Shepard KF, Harman LB, Stephens J. Factors that influence the clinical decision making of novice and experienced physical therapists. Phys Ther. 2011 Jan;91(1):87-101. doi: 10.2522/ptj.20100161. Epub 2010 Dec 2.

  PMID: 21127167 BACKGROUND

• Wainwright SF, Shepard KF, Harman LB, Stephens J. Novice and experienced physical therapist clinicians: a comparison of how reflection is used to inform the clinical decision-making process. Phys Ther. 2010 Jan;90(1):75-88. doi: 10.2522/ptj.20090077. Epub 2009 Nov 19.

  PMID: 19926680 BACKGROUND

Study Officials

• Phyu H Hlaing, PhD

  Mahidol University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: PhD candidate

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 8, 2017
• First Posted: May 11, 2017
• Study Start: March 13, 2017
• Primary Completion: July 31, 2017
• Study Completion: October 5, 2017
• Last Updated: October 25, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share

Locations

BU (1)