Medical Education Intervention for Medical Students

Intervention to Promote Medical Students Empathy, Well-being and Study emotion-a Randomized Clinical Trial.

The doctor-patient relationship was becoming worse. More and more work-related violence has happened to physicians and nurses. A portion of medical students felt depressed and thought that the career future was gloomy. The study was designed to measure the empathy, an vital element of professionalism, well-being of mental and study emotion. Furthermore, the investigators explored an intervention of group study to promote medical students' professionalism, mental health and study emotion.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Mental Health
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Education of medical humanities

Detailed Description

A total number of 200 junior medical students are going to be enrolled according to inclusive criteria. They are divided into two groups, one group is given education about medical humanities when the other group is not given any intervention but the same room and time.The outcomes including empathy, depression, quality of life, burnout and self-efficiency are measured before, during and after the trial.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 200
• Phase: Phase 3

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 25 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• 1 age 18 to 25 years
• 2 junior students majoring in clinical medicine
• 3 no mental diseases previously

Exclusion Criteria:

• Did not meet inclusion criteria

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: intervention group; Medical students rolled into this group would accept education of medical humanities.	Other: Education of medical humanities; The medical students in the intervention group would gain education about the medical humanities, but not the control group.
No Intervention: control group; Medical students rolled into this group would not gain education of medical humanities.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Medical students' empathy	we plan to use the scale"The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy" to measure medical students' empathy	3 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Medical students' burnout	we plan to use the scale"Maslach Burnout Inventory" to measure medical students' burnout	3 months
Quality of life of Medical students	we plan to use the scale"MOS SF-8 Health Survey" to measure medical students' quality of life	3 months
Medical students' self-efficiency	we plan to use the "General Self-Efficacy Scale" to measure medical students' self-efficiency	3 months
Medical students' depression	we plan to use the "Patient Health Questionnaire-9" to measure medical students' depression	3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Ming Kuang
• Collaborators: Sun Yat-sen University

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Schwenk TL, Davis L, Wimsatt LA. Depression, stigma, and suicidal ideation in medical students. JAMA. 2010 Sep 15;304(11):1181-90. doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.1300.
• Reed DA, Shanafelt TD, Satele DW, Power DV, Eacker A, Harper W, Moutier C, Durning S, Massie FS Jr, Thomas MR, Sloan JA, Dyrbye LN. Relationship of pass/fail grading and curriculum structure with well-being among preclinical medical students: a multi-institutional study. Acad Med. 2011 Nov;86(11):1367-73. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182305d81.
• Chen D, Lew R, Hershman W, Orlander J. A cross-sectional measurement of medical student empathy. J Gen Intern Med. 2007 Oct;22(10):1434-8. doi: 10.1007/s11606-007-0298-x. Epub 2007 Jul 26.
• Rong R, Chen W, Dai Z, Gu J, Chen W, Zhou Y, Kuang M, Xiao H. Improvement of the management of mental well-being and empathy in Chinese medical students: a randomized controlled study. BMC Med Educ. 2021 Jul 10;21(1):378. doi: 10.1186/s12909-021-02813-6.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: December 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): September 1, 2016
• Study Completion (Anticipated): September 1, 2016

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 25, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 4, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): January 5, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): May 26, 2016
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 25, 2016
• Last Verified: May 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: medical education; medical students; professionalism; study emotion
• Other Study ID Numbers: MEI001