Interprofessional Versus Monoprofessional Case-based Learning in Childhood Cancer

NCT04204109 | Terminated

• 1 other identifier: Mtopperzer
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 49
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Interprofessional education in childhood cancer is a multifaceted field. It involves multiple healthcare professionals with general and specialised knowledge and skills. Complex treatment, care and rehabilitation require continuous professional development and maintenance of healthcare professionals' competencies in their own professional field. Limited knowledge exists on comparing interprofessional and monoprofessional education and only few randomised studies have evaluated the effectiveness and efficiency of interprofessional education. One clinical area among others where healthcare professionals collaborate is in gastrointestinal toxicities and side effects. These are frequent and potentially severe clinical problems in childhood cancer that involve multiple healthcare professionals. Objectives: To study the effect of interprofessional versus monoprofessional case-based learning on healthcare professionals' attitudes on interprofessional learning and collaboration. Trial design: single centre investigator-initiated cluster randomized trial Methods: Participants: Employees with patient-related work at the childhood cancer departments and affiliated with childhood cancer at Rigshospitalet are eligible for inclusion. The setting is the childhood cancer department. Outcome: The primary outcome is to improve healthcare professionals' interprofessional attitude. Measurements: The primary outcome is attitudes measured by the Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale (AITCS). Secondary outcome is Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) Questionnaire, and Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ). Knowledge will be measured by written test as multiple choice questionnaire (MCQ). Timepoints: The self-reported questionnaires will be distributed to the participants approximately one month before and one month after the educational intervention. On the day of the educational intervention, participants will answer the multiple choice questionnaire. Analysis: Linear mixed regression will be used to compare differences in mean scores postintervention, adjusted for differences between the two groups. Results: We hypothesise that interprofessional case-based learning positively affects the healthcare professionals' interprofessional attitudes.

Conditions

Interprofessional Education; Continuing Professional Development; Education; Case-based Learning

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in the participants' interprofessional collaboration

  Primary outcome: change in the participants' interprofessional attitude to collaboration measured by Assessment of interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale (AITCS). The scale contains three main categories: 1)Partnership/shared decision making (19 items), 2) Collaboration (11 items), 3) Coordination (7 items) that are rated on a scale from 1-5 (1= "never"; 2= "rarely"; 3="occasionally"; 4="most of the time"; 5="Always"). The scales procedures scores from 48 to 240. Higher scores indicate a better outcome

  Measured 1 month before intervention and 1-3 months after intervention in both groups

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Change in the participants' interprofessional attitudes

  Measured 1 month before intervention and 1-3 months after intervention in both groups

• Change in participants' knowledge of gastrointestinal toxicities and side effects

  measured at the actual intervention day 30 minutes prior to the session and immediately after the education session (maximum 15 minutes after)

Study Arms (2)

Interprofessional case-based learning

EXPERIMENTAL

The experimental intervention will be the interprofessional group receiving case-based learning about gastro-intestinal toxicities and side effects of children and adolescents with cancer.

Other: Interprofessional case-based learning

Monoprofessional case-based learning

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The control group is the monoprofessional group that will receive the same case-based learning as the intervention group.

Other: Interprofessional case-based learning

Interventions

Interprofessional case-based learning OTHER

The trial is an educational intervention where groups of healthcare professionals receive the same case-based learning: one group receives case-based learning with healthcare professionals of various professional backgrounds (experimental) versus another group receiving case-based learning with healthcare professionals exclusively of the same professional background (control). The educational intervention consists of a case that is developed for the purpose of the intervention. The participants in the experimental group will be randomised into six teams who will receive interprofessional case-based learning. The experimental group will be made up of healthcare professionals from various groups. The participants in the control group will be randomised in groups of one profession

Interprofessional case-based learning; Monoprofessional case-based learning

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Healthcare professionals at the in-patient department for children and adolescents with cancer
• Healthcare professionals at the in-patient department for transplantation of children and adolescents with cancer
• Healthcare professionals at the out-patient departments for children and adolescents with cancer department
• Healthcare professionals affiliated with Juliane Marie Centre at Rigshospitalet
• Employees in a supportive function to the department for children and adolescents with cancer, such as psychologists, priests, pedagogues, social workers, experts in pain relief in children, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and dieticians.
• Teachers employed at a local public school but have their main working hours at the department.

You may not qualify if:

• Staff taking part in the intervention or in the planning of the intervention
• Management with staff responsibilities
• Lack of informed consent

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Rigshospitalet, Denmark: lead
• Danish Child Cancer Foundation: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Juliane Marie Centre for Women, Children and Reproduction (JMC), Rigshospitalet (RH), Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark.

Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark

Location

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Related Links

• National Committee on Health Research Ethics

Study Officials

• Jette L Sørensen

  Juliane Marie Centre for Women, Children and Reproduction (JMC), Rigshospitalet (RH), Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark.

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 10, 2019
• First Posted: December 18, 2019
• Study Start: February 25, 2020
• Primary Completion: March 11, 2020
• Study Completion: May 5, 2020
• Last Updated: September 9, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

DK (1)