Multimodal Psychotherapy Training for Chinese Medical Students

NCT06258460 | Recruiting DMC

• 1 other identifier: 2024-0066
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 180
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Providing evidence-based, well-designed psychotherapy teaching to train them to get a basic understanding of psychotherapy and to gain required skills for clinical practice would be fundamental to medical students, residency. This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of multimodal psychotherapy training program for medical students in China.

Conditions

Mental Illness

Keywords

Multimodal teaching; psychotherapy training; Chinese medical students; randomized controlled trial

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Facilitative Interpersonal Skills task (FIS)

  FIS has eight dimensions: 1) verbal fluency, 2) hope and positive expectations, 3) persuasiveness; 4) emotional expression; 5) warmth, acceptance and understanding; 6) empathy; 7) alliance-bond capacity; and 8) alliance rupture-repair responsiveness. The items are rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (i.e., skill deficit) to 5 (i.e., optimal presence of skill), with high inter-rater agreement and excellent internal consistency. Research indicates that FIS is reliable measure to evaluate performance and psychotherapeutic outcomes in training and assessing therapists, high FIS indicate superior outcomes and better therapeutic processes. It measures therapists' demonstrated ability to convey psychotherapy's common factors, such as hopefulness, warmth, persuasiveness, and emotional engagement.

  8 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Training program acceptability

  2 days

• Trainees' psychotherapy knowledge

  8 weeks

• Utilization of psychotherapy

  8 weeks

• Self-reported self-efficacy

  8 weeks

• Self-reported motivation

  8 weeks

Study Arms (2)

the two-day psychotherapy training program with 8-week follow-ups intervention group

EXPERIMENTAL

All participants from the intervention group will receive the two-day psychotherapy training program. They will receive a hard copy booklet of the psychotherapy training program at recruitment. In addition, supervision-based group meeting will be hold at week 1, 2, 4, and 8 during follow-ups, and each meeting will be lasted for approximately two hours. At each follow-up meeting, the teachers, including psychotherapists and psychiatrists, will be prepared to answer any psychotherapy related questions, encourage them to practice psychological interventions, and provide more information for participants' clinical application of psychotherapy.

Other: psychotherapy training program intervention

the wail-list control group

PLACEBO COMPARATOR

After consent is given, participants who are allocated to the wail-list control group will receive a message encouraging them to complete all questionnaires from baseline to the last follow-up at 8 weeks. They will receive messages via WeChat to thank them for being in the study and reminding them of the time until the completion of the study at 8 weeks follow-up. They will receive a digital booklet of the psychotherapy training program via the WeChat individual messaging platform at recruitment, or a hard copy on request. After the trial ends, participants in the control arm will be able to receive the psychotherapy training program for free.

Other: the wail-list control intervention

Interventions

psychotherapy training program intervention OTHER

The intervention group will receive a two-day multimodal-based intensive educational intervention of CBT with 8 weeks follow-up (supervision based online teaching).

the two-day psychotherapy training program with 8-week follow-ups intervention group

the wail-list control intervention OTHER

The wail-list control group will receive a message encouraging them to complete all questionnaires from baseline to the last follow-up at 8 weeks.

the wail-list control group

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Medical student, residents, health care providers
• years of age or older
• Expressing an interest in psychotherapy
• Willingness to received randomization
• Willing to provide informed consent to participate in the study

You may not qualify if:

• Not health care providers
• Below 18 years old
• Unwilling to be randomized
• Unable to provide informed consent

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital: lead

Study Sites (1)

Yanhui Liao

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310016, China

RECRUITING

Related Publications (2)

• Ding Y, Pei T, Peng P, Yao J, Tang J, Liao Y. Attitudes and knowledge for CBT-based psychotherapy among medical students and residents in China: a survey study. BMC Med Educ. 2025 Jan 15;25(1):68. doi: 10.1186/s12909-025-06641-w.

  PMID: 39815284 DERIVED

• Pei T, Ding Y, Tang J, Liao Y. Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Multimodal Psychotherapy Training Program for Medical Students in China: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 Jan 3;14:e58037. doi: 10.2196/58037.

  PMID: 39752191 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Tang Jinsong, MD

  Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Central Study Contacts

Luyao Zou, MS

CONTACT

8615869178144; ZouLuyao0000@163.com

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: Data will be blinded to intervention assignment by the trial statistician using R software
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Attending Psychiatrist

Model Details: This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT). The intervention group will receive a two-day multimodal-based intensive educational intervention with 8 weeks follow-up (supervision based online teaching). The wait-list control group will not receive the intervention until the end of the study. Both groups will be followed up to 8 weeks.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 6, 2024
• First Posted: February 14, 2024
• Study Start: February 1, 2014
• Primary Completion: April 1, 2024
• Study Completion: April 15, 2024
• Last Updated: February 20, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CN (1)