Comparison of the Perception of Non-technical Skills

NCT06340529 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: CLS_SIMULATION
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 100
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Clinical simulation has recently acquired great importance in the health sciences. It is a pedagogical methodology that is increasingly used in health science degrees, since it is very useful for the acquisition of both technical and non-technical skills (leadership, teamwork and effective communication, among others). However, if the investigators focus on physical therapy, the use of clinical simulation is a novel field and therefore requires a great deal of research. Researchers in this field do not yet have the consistency and experience as in other health branches such as medicine or nursing, where the participants have been using high-fidelity simulators for years for the learning of all their students. Clinical simulation allows students to achieve these competencies without the need to practice on real patients. For all these reasons, and because of the situation of need generated in recent years, in which internships in hospitals and clinical centers were completely suppressed, the need for our research is justified.

Conditions

Healthy

Keywords

Physioterapy; Students; Clinical Simulation; Learning methodology

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Ottawa Scale

  Modified Ottawa Scale for the acquisition of non-technical skills, validated in Spanish (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.redar.2021.02.009). Each of the items evaluated must is be classified from 'strongly disagree', whose value is one, to 'strongly agree', whose value is 7. The minimum value is six and maximum value is forty-two. Higher scores mean a better outcome. The scale will be passed after each of the 9 simulations.

  2 week, 4 week, 6 week.

Study Arms (3)

Between equals

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Physiotherapy students who do not participate in the simulation, but they do observe the simulation and participate in the debriefing.

Other: Clinical Simulation

Self appraisal

EXPERIMENTAL

Physiotherapy students who participate in the simulation in all its phases.

Other: Clinical Simulation

Lecturers

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Teachers observing the intervention and participate as patients and in the debriefing

Other: Clinical Simulation

Interventions

Clinical Simulation OTHER

Carrying out a total of 9 clinical simulation in three days, one day every two weeks, where the student resolves a situation by taking on the role of a physiotherapist with a simulated patient.

Between equals; Lecturers; Self appraisal

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Second year students of the Physiotherapy Degree
• They do not have clinical experience with real patients.
• Subject teachers

You may not qualify if:

• Not wanting to sign to participate in the study.
• Not signing the informed consent
• Teachers who do not have experience in clinical simulation

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Valencia: lead

Study Sites (1)

Carmen Casal

Valencia, Spain

RECRUITING

Study Officials

• Carmen Casal-Angulo, PhD RN

  University of Valencia

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Central Study Contacts

Carmen Casal-Angulo, PhD RN

CONTACT

+34629037362; m.carmen.casal@uv.es

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SCREENING
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 25, 2024
• First Posted: April 1, 2024
• Study Start: May 30, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): September 15, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): June 30, 2027
• Last Updated: April 29, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

ES (1)