Simulation in Physical Therapy Students

NCT04428892 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: ENF-19-2017
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 40
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This randomized trial included physiotherapy students, randomized in two groups, experimental one included simulation for developed competencies related to clinical reasoning in physiotherapy interventions for people with low back pain. The second group developed role-playing. this protocol allows us to compare two strategies with simulation for to promote clinical decisions in physiotherapy practice.

Conditions

Simulation Training

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• clinical reasoning

  The Objetive structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE) was designed and validated, with the proposal to asses the physiotherapeutic clinical reasoning in Low Back Pain people, The OCSE have included 7 stations for assesing the clinical reasoning students.

  1 Month

Study Arms (2)

Clinical Simulation

EXPERIMENTAL

The group denominated SP received a teaching strategy based on a class session with simulated practice for decision-making in clinical skills when caring for a person with LBP. Each session lasted approximately 120 minutes, and the clinical case used for the SP sessions was subjected to face validity with experts in the area of study.

Behavioral: Pedagogyc Strategy

Conventional Pedagogical strategy

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

received a class session based on a "role playing" simulation strategy, structured for the same purpose established in the SP group. This session lasted approximately 120 minutes, and the learning environment was the classroom in which students assumed different roles to act out; some of them acted as people with LBP and others as physiotherapists

Behavioral: Pedagogyc Strategy

Interventions

Pedagogyc Strategy BEHAVIORAL

Simulation can be used as a pedagogic tool that provides students with significant learning regarding decision-making in interacting with people, in this case patients with LBP. It is a potential strategy for developing diverse skills focused on the safety of the patient and the therapist.

Clinical Simulation; Conventional Pedagogical strategy

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 23 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Physiotherapy students in five-semester from Universidad de La Sabana and Universidad de Boyacá

You may not qualify if:

• under-age subjects
• those who had been internally or externally transferred from another academic program in health,
• exchange students
• those repeating
• with prior experiences in simulated practice in other assignments

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Universidad de la Sabana: lead
• Facultad Ciencias de La Salud Universidad de Boyaca: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Carolina Sandoval

Tunja, Colombia

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Sandoval-Cuellar C, Alfonso-Mora ML, Castellanos-Garrido AL, Del Pilar Villarraga-Nieto A, Goyeneche-Ortegon RL, Acosta-Otalora ML, Del Pilar Castellanos-Vega R, Cobo-Mejia EA. Simulation in physiotherapy students for clinical decisions during interaction with people with low back pain: randomised controlled trial. BMC Med Educ. 2021 Jul 9;21(1):375. doi: 10.1186/s12909-021-02812-7.

  PMID: 34243767 DERIVED

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 2, 2020
• First Posted: June 11, 2020
• Study Start: March 1, 2019
• Primary Completion: May 20, 2019
• Study Completion: December 20, 2019
• Last Updated: June 11, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-06

Locations

CO (1)