Analysis of the Results Obtained in the Regular Clinical Practice of a Clinical Ultrasound Classroom For Primary Care Physicians As a Formative Intervention System

NCT05986110 | Unknown DMC

• 1 other identifier: IBYAP22/00008
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 40
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The objectives of the project are to evaluate the theoretical-practical knowledge acquired and the degree of satisfaction of a methodology based on theoretical-practical training in abdominal and thyroid clinical ultrasound of family doctors, in the urban area of Primary Health Care, and to evaluate the benefit obtained by patients over 60 years of age included in the program, analyzing the degree of satisfaction, resolution time of the reason for consultation and decrease in the number of referrals to the second level of care, analyzing the differences by gender.

Conditions

Family Medicine; Clinical Ultrasound; Primary Care

Keywords

Family medicine; Clinical ultrasound; Primary care; Resolution improvement

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Assessment of knowledge and skills

  An initial evaluation of knowledge will be carried out prior to the start of the training intervention, which will consist of 10 multiple choice questions with four possible answers with only 1 correct one (5 theoretical questions on the fundamentals and use of ultrasound, and interpretation of 5 images of pathologies or ultrasound anatomy). For the final evaluation, a new test will be carried out, with 10 questions similar to those of the initial test (5 theoretical questions and 5 common images).

  1 year

Study Arms (2)

Intervention Group

EXPERIMENTAL

Procedure: A training intervention on clinical ultrasound

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

Interventions

A training intervention on clinical ultrasound PROCEDURE

To train 20 primary care family doctors in clinical ultrasound so that they have greater power of resolution and allow them to limit the diagnostic and surgical times on the waiting lists of their patients.

Intervention Group

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• To work in selected health centers.
• To have assigned to more than 800 patients.
• Not have previous training in regulated clinical ultrasound.
• Sign a commitment to Attendance at least 80% of the training program sessions.
• Sign the informed consent.

You may not qualify if:

• Not signing the informed consent.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Fundacion para la Investigacion y Formacion en Ciencias de la Salud: lead

Study Sites (1)

Primary Care Research Unit of Salamanca

Salamanca, 37006, Spain

RECRUITING

Central Study Contacts

Fernando Pérez Escanilla

CONTACT

923177831; fperezes@saludcastillayleon.es

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 29, 2023
• First Posted: August 14, 2023
• Study Start: January 1, 2023
• Primary Completion: December 31, 2023
• Study Completion: December 31, 2023
• Last Updated: August 14, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-06

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

ES (1)