Impact of Mental Imagery on the Non-technical Skills of Anaesthesia Residents

NCT06954519 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: Mental imagery study
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 22
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

The goal of this randomized trial is to learn if mental imagery works to improve non technical skills in residents. It will also learn about knowledge and technical skills. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does mental imagery of a cognitive aid improve non technical skills of residents ? Does mental imagery of a cognitive aid improve technical skills and knowledge of residents ? The invastigators will compare repeated mental imagery to repeated simple reading of a cognitive aid to see if mental imagery works to train non technical skills. Participants will:

• participate in an initial training on neonatal resuscitation
• be randomized in two groups: mental imagery or simple reading
• Repeat training according to the group with predefined intervalls during 6 months
• be evaluated 6 months after the initial training

Conditions

no Condition is Studied; the Focus of the Study is the Impact of Mental Imagery on Non Technical Skills of Medical Students

Keywords

mental imagery; cognitive aid; neonatal resuscitation; simulation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS)

  Evaluation of Non-Technical Skills of anesthesia residents' (Originally published in Watkins et al., Simul in Healthc 2017). From 1 to 36 points. Better score means better skills

  6 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Neonatal Resuscitation Performance Evaluation (NRPE) scale

  6 months

Study Arms (2)

Mental Imagery

EXPERIMENTAL

Participant of the mental imagery group will have a specific training during the initial training and will repeat the mental imagery regularely during the 6 months (timing of repetition guided by messages sended by investigator)

Other: Mental imagery

Classical reading

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participant of the control group will have no specific training during the initial training, only presentation of the cognitive aid. They will also repeat the reading of the cognitive aid regularely during the 6 months (timing of repetition guided by messages sended by investigator)

Other: Cognitive aid reading

Interventions

Mental imagery OTHER

The principle of guided mental imagery and helping students to mentally represent the key stages of a process, using an animated slideshow full of evocative elements, which we created specifically for this study. The mental imagery will be repeated by the students several times independently until the evaluation simulation at 6 months based on reminders via messages from investigators.

Mental Imagery

Cognitive aid reading OTHER

Participants of the control group will only read the cognitive aid on neonatal resuscitation at the same intervalls than the experimentation group

Classical reading

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 30 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Anesthesia residents in 1, 2, 3 o 4 year of training and volunteers

You may not qualify if:

• Residents not volunteer

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Reims University hospital: lead

Study Sites (2)

CHU de Reims

Reims, Grand Est, 51100, France

ENROLLING BY INVITATION

CHU de Reims

Reims, 51100, France

RECRUITING

Central Study Contacts

Daphné Michelet, Professor

CONTACT

+33 0326782537; dmichelet@chu-reims.fr

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Clinical Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 27, 2025
• First Posted: May 1, 2025
• Study Start: March 27, 2025
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2025
• Study Completion: October 1, 2025
• Last Updated: May 1, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

FR (2)