Effectiveness of Interprofessional Mentoring Competence Education for Dental Health Care Professionals

NCT04717232 | Unknown

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

Brief Summary

Clinical practice is an integral part of dental and dental hygiene students' education. The curriculum for a degree is guided by best academic practices for European undergraduate dental education, published by the Association for Dental Education in Europé (ADEE), and the dental hygienist education is based on a European qualifications framework. Interprofessional education has been recognized as a means to improve oral health professional training due to the linked form of education with improved health outcomes. The interprofessional mentoring education is needed for the clinical practice, which has to be implemented in interprofessional teams. Clinical practice mentors need to have completed an interprofessional mentoring education. Different types of educational approaches have been previously affecting mentors' competence development in mentoring. Dental and dental hygiene students can experience team-based, interprofessional education by participating in clinical practice sessions offered in a communal learning environment. Traditional lectures can be transformed into modern, enhanced learning experiences that correspond to the new generation of students. Online learning methods are increasingly being incorporated into dental health care education. Online learning is designed to be able to support learners with technology supporting and facilitating student learning. Those methods can be used in dental health care continuous education. This study is designed to evaluate educational intervention's effectiveness of inter-professional mentoring education on mentors' competence development of dentists and dental hygienists mentors.

Conditions

Competence

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Competence in mentoring students in the clinical practice

  Mentor competence will be measured using the Mentors' Competence Instrument (MCI), which includes seven sum-variables and 45 items. Respondents rate each item of the instrument using a four-point Likert scale.(1=totally disagree, 2=disagree to some extent, 3=agree to some extent, and 4=totally agree). Higher scores mean a better outcome.

  The Outcome Measures will be assessed a change. The change is being assessed; Pre intervention, immediately after intervention and 3 months after intervention.

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Changes in mentoring students

  The Outcome Measures will be assessed a change. The change is being assessed; Immediately after intervention and 3 months after intervention.

Study Arms (3)

The blended learning approach to mentoring education for dental health care professionals

EXPERIMENTAL

The blended learning approach to mentoring education for dental health care professionals will last five weeks, including four face-to-face seminars, interprofessional group work and self-reflection assignments lasting for two days. The educational content will include mentoring as a process, mentoring as a relationship, challenges of mentoring, and personal mentoring.

Other: Blended learning approach to mentoring education for dental health care professionals

The interprofessional online mentoring education

EXPERIMENTAL

The intervention group will attend mentoring competence education. The Interprofessional online mentoring educations includes videos of specialist lectures, e-learning materials, along with assignments concerning reflection skills and participant-based evaluation. The education content included the processes and interactions of mentoring, goal-oriented mentoring, along with student-based feedback and student-centered evaluation. The mentoring education can be completed in an online learning environment and participants can complete the education at their own pace within six weeks.

Other: The interprofessional online mentoring education

The Control group

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The control group are dentists´ and dental hygienists´ who are working at health care centers on the Finnish Dental Association site, participate in student mentoring and have not received any education before.

Other: Blended learning approach to mentoring education for dental health care professionals; Other: The interprofessional online mentoring education

Interventions

Blended learning approach to mentoring education for dental health care professionals OTHER

The participants in the intervention group are dentists´ and dental hygienists´. The mentoring education for dental health care professionals (3 ECTS credits) will be organized by the program leader in Dentistry at the place-blinded. The aim of the mentoring education is to build understanding of how to support a student's professional development (both basic education and specialization) and transfer skills that are relevant to working as an independent expert in oral health care.

The Control group; The blended learning approach to mentoring education for dental health care professionals

The interprofessional online mentoring education OTHER

The participants in the intervention group are dentists´ and dental hygienists´. The interprofessional online mentoring education (3 ECTS credits) will be organized in collaboration with the Finnish Dental Association in an online environment. The aim of the intervention is to in-crease mentors' competence in guidance processes and interactions, supporting students´ goal-oriented learning and professional evaluation, and providing constructive feedback.

The Control group; The interprofessional online mentoring education

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Dentist or dental hygienist
• Working in dental health care
• Readiness to participate in the study.

You may not qualify if:

• Professional from a field other than dental health care
• Unwilling to provide consent.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Oulu: lead

Study Sites (1)

Healthcare organizations in Nordic Finland

Oulu, Finland

Location

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Study Officials

• Kristina Mikkonen, PhD

  University of Oulu

  STUDY CHAIR

• Anna-Leena Keinänen, MHSc

  University of Oulu. Oulu University of Applied Sciences

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR, 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 16, 2020
• First Posted: January 22, 2021
• Study Start: January 14, 2019
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2021
• Study Completion: October 1, 2021
• Last Updated: January 22, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

FI (1)