Workshops in Sustainable Healthcare to Assess How Teaching Can Aid Core Principle Implementation

NCT05980819 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: LHS0018
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 20
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

With more frequent extreme weather events, climbing atmospheric Carbon dioxide and unabated use of fossil fuels, planetary health and sustainability will become crucial to future medical practice. Clinical educators must rise to the challenge, educating and empowering tutees to ensure their understanding of green healthcare principles and solutions. Research at the University College London and the Universities of Bristol and Exeter has been conducted into engaging medical students with the theory of sustainability. What has not been explored is how to have them engage with the topic practically, providing them with frameworks and opportunities to their knowledge into practical scenarios. What we propose is a short study conducted over the period of a month in October 2023 that pairs educational sessions to answer the research question: do practical workshops help to cement sustainable teaching for attendees, help them bring out their individual ideas and experience surrounding sustainability, and empower them to implement comparable solutions in their clinical practice? Historically, these projects have ignored multidisciplinary practice. Specialists of any grade in any field can practice sustainability. As such, any healthcare student/professional is eligible, pending their consent. To facilitate this broad eligibility base, and to bring diversity of ideas to the workshops, both students at Liverpool University and any interested staff at the Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust will be eligible for the project. Following a pre-session questionnaire to gauge baseline, participants will be taught the core principles of clinical sustainability in a remote 2-hour, interactive lecture-based session. This would be followed up by a hybrid 2-hour practical workshop session later that week. Here, those consenting to attend will have a chance to work through different clinical scenarios with experts in different fields. Each session will have feedback forms to gauge compounding of knowledge, engagement and empowerment, our primary outcome measures.

Conditions

Quality Improvement; Medical Education

Keywords

Sustainability; Medical Education; Healthcare

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Confidence in applying sustainable healthcare principles to clinical scenarios following the lectures and expert-led workshop.

  Confidence level as measured on a Likert Scale of 1-5 with 1 being unconfident, and 5 being highly confident. Comparison will be made using a pre-session Likert scale and a post-session Likert scale addressing the same question. Statistically, non-parametric tests such as Mann-Whitney U will be used to generate results.

  4 weeks. To be assessed during the pre-course survey in the month prior to the first session, then to be assessed after the second session (the post-course survey will cover both sessions and will be available for a month, being delivered to participants

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Presence of difference in baseline knowledge of sustainability principles between different healthcare professional types and students in the region

  4 weeks. To be assessed during the pre-course survey in the month prior to the first session, then to be assessed after the second session (the post-course survey will cover both sessions and will be available for a month, being delivered to participants

• Presence of difference in confidence in applying sustainability principles in practice between different healthcare professional types and students in the region

  4 weeks. To be assessed during the pre-course survey in the month prior to the first session, then to be assessed after the second session (the post-course survey will cover both sessions and will be available for a month, being delivered to participants

• Extent of difference in improvement in knowledge of core sustainability principles between different groups (students versus professionals)

  4 weeks. To be assessed during the pre-course survey in the month prior to the first session, then to be assessed after the second session (the post-course survey will cover both sessions and will be available for a month, being delivered to participants

• Extent of difference in improvement in confidence in applying sustainable principles in practice between different groups (students versus professionals)

  4 weeks. To be assessed during the pre-course survey in the month prior to the first session, then to be assessed after the second session (the post-course survey will cover both sessions and will be available for a month, being delivered to participants

• Assessing a single taught session's value in guiding a participant's ability to create a clinically viable project using objective criteria as devised by the PI

  4 weeks. Markers to complete their assessments prior to the second session - they would then feed back individually to participants during the sessions. They can take up to a month to deliver the emails to the participants via their collected emails.

Study Arms (1)

All Volunteers

EXPERIMENTAL

All volunteers will partake in this educational study at the same timepoints, there will be no blinding, but there will be an unbiased recruitment effort

Other: Sustainability lecture and opportunity to create a project

Interventions

Sustainability lecture and opportunity to create a project OTHER

Pure education

All Volunteers

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Healthcare students at the University of Liverpool/Liverpool John Moores/ Edge Hill who are assigned placement at the LUHFT Trust:
• medical students
• nursing students
• dental students
• student paramedics
• student occupational therapists
• student physiotherapists
• student radiographers
• student dieticians
• operating department practitioners
• student speech and language therapists
• student psychologists
• student pharmacists
• NHS Doctors
• Junior doctors from FY1 to ST8, including SAS doctors or Doctors not in Training

You may not qualify if:

• Those who are not healthcare students from the institutions above
• Those who are not NHS Healthcare Staff members from the LUHFT Trust

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: lead

Study Sites (1)

Royal Liverpool University Hospital

Liverpool, Merseyside, L7 8YE, United Kingdom

Location

Study Officials

• Cecilia Jukka, MBChB

  Royal Liverpool University Hospital

  STUDY CHAIR

Central Study Contacts

Duranka Perera, MBBS

CONTACT

07521509420; duranka.perera@rlbuht.nhs.uk

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER GOV
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 8, 2023
• First Posted: August 8, 2023
• Study Start: August 15, 2023
• Primary Completion: October 30, 2023
• Study Completion: December 31, 2024
• Last Updated: August 8, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-01

Locations

GB (1)