- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT05294094
Learning Diagnostic Skills Online (German: Diagnostik Skills Online Lernen) (DiSkO)
Clinical psychologists give diagnoses to their patients everyday and these diagnoses determine if and how these patients will be treated. Misdiagnoses can have severely adverse effects. Therefore, teaching diagnostic skills to clinical psychologists is very important during their undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate training.
One major problem in teaching diagnostics is that there are too few opportunities to practice with real patients due to legal and ethical restrictions. The aim of the DiSkO-project is, therefore, the development and evaluation of a blended learning course to teach diagnostic skills to (future) clinical psychologists.
In order to make the diagnostic training more practical a series of video files of simulated diagnostic interviews will be presented in an online course. These video files will be divided in different segments and presented with questions and automatic feedback. In a second step, learners will make a transfer to a real face-to-face diagnostic situation with an actor simulating a patient.
The DiSkO- course will be evaluated in a randomized-controlled trial at three universities in Germany (Ruhr-University of Bochum, Philipps University of Marburg, University of Cologne). To test whether students are equally good in administering a diagnostic interview after taking the DiSkO-course compared to students who took part in a traditional face-to-face university course a noninferiority-analysis will be conducted. Furthermore, diagnostic knowledge and attitudes toward evidence-based assessment after taking part in DiSkO vs. the face-to-face course will be compared.
The investigators aim at disseminating the open source DiSkO-course to other universities or institutions of tertiary education in Germany with the aim of improving the diagnostic training for students, better prepare them for their clinical practice and thus improve patients' health care in Germany.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Hesse
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Marburg, Hesse, Germany, 35032
- Philipps University of Marburg
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North Rhine-westphalia
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Bochum, North Rhine-westphalia, Germany, 44787
- Ruhr-University Bochum
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Cologne, North Rhine-westphalia, Germany, 50969
- University of Cologne
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Psychology bachelor students of a cooperating university (Ruhr-University of Bochum, University of Cologne, Philipps-University of Marburg)
Exclusion Criteria:
- previous participation in a diagnostic seminar
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Other
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: intervention group
blended learning
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The blended learning course consists of two parts.
The first part is an online course with case studies and instructional videos providing basic clinical diagnostic knowledge and the ability to conduct structured clinical interviews.
In the second part, learners get to discuss the course content with a teacher, practice their interviewing skills with other students and make a transfer to a real face-to-face diagnostic situation with an actor simulating a patient.
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Active Comparator: control group
Teaching format as usual
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The teaching format as usual represents the usual teaching of clinical diagnostic knowledge and the ability to conduct structured clinical interviews.
Also in this intervention students also have the opportunity to discuss the course content with a teacher, practice their interviewing skills with other students and conduct a structured interview with an actor simulating a patient.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Behavioral Measure: Performance in a structured interview
Time Frame: 13 weeks
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Conducting a 15 minute section of a structured interview with a patient played by an actor.
This interview is videotaped and then rated by independent evaluators regarding e.g.
rules of correct implementation and clincial interviewing skills.
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13 weeks
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Knowledge Test A
Time Frame: 1 week
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A test of basic clinical diagnostic knowledge developed and previously piloted by the study authors.
Using the data from the piloting, two parallel 15-Item versions (A and B) were created, which students answered before and after the intervention.
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1 week
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Knowledge Test B
Time Frame: 14 weeks
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A test of basic clinical diagnostic knowledge developed and previously piloted by the study authors.
Using the data from the piloting, two parallel 15-Item versions (A and B) were created, which students answered before and after the intervention.
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14 weeks
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Münster Questionnaire for the Evaluation of Seminars - revised (MFE-Sr; Thielsch & Hirschfeld, 2010)
Time Frame: 14 weeks
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7-point Likert scale (min.: 1, max.:7) The following 6 Items from the MFE-Sr were used: Item Number 14: "The content of this course was too difficult for me." Item Number 15: "The pace of teaching was too fast for me." Item Number 16: "The time commitment associated with the course overwhelmed me." Item Number 25: "I learned a lot in this course." Item Number 26: "I would recommend this course to other students." Item 14-16: higher values indicate worse outcome, Item 25-26: higher values indicate better outcome |
14 weeks
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Website-Clarity, Likeability, Informativeness, and Credibility (Web-CLIC; Thielsch & Hirschfeld, 2019)
Time Frame: 14 weeks
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A 12-item questionnaire measuring a users' subjective view on web content, regarding its clarity, likeability, informativeness and credibility. The whole 12-item scale and one additionally created item regarding the credibility ("I completely trusted the content in DiSkO") were used. 7-point Likert scale (min.: 1, max.:7) higher values indicate better outcome |
14 weeks
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Brief scale for teaching evaluation (Zumbach, Spinath, Schahn, Friedrich & Kögel, 2007)
Time Frame: 14 weeks
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The following 3 Items were used: Item Number 1: "The subject matter was appropriately illustrated (e.g. by examples, visualizations, etc.)." Item Number 2: "The course was clearly structured." Item Number 3: "The learning objectives of the course were clearly defined." 7-point Likert scale (min.: 1, max.:7) higher values indicate better outcome |
14 weeks
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Usability Metric for User Experience - Lite (UMUX-Lite; Lewis et al., 2013)
Time Frame: 14 weeks
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A 2-item scale assessing perceived usability. 7-point Likert scale (min.: 1, max.:7) higher values indicate better outcome |
14 weeks
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Visual Aesthetics of Websites Inventory - Short (VisAWI-S; Moshagen & Thielsch, 2013)
Time Frame: 14 weeks
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A 4-item scale measuring subjectively perceived aesthetics. The 4-item scale and one additionally created item ("DiSkO is designed to be visually appealing") were used. 7-point Likert scale (min.: 1, max.:7) higher values indicate better outcome |
14 weeks
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Overall impression
Time Frame: 14 weeks
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One item using the german school grading system ranging from 1 (very good) to 6 (unsatisfactory): "Overall: I give the course an overall grade of ..." |
14 weeks
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Acceptance of structured interviews questionnaire (Bruchmüller et al., 2011)
Time Frame: 14 weeks
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A 11-item questionnaire measuring the estimated patient satisfaction with structured interviews. Item 1: visual analogue scale (0-100) higher values indicate better outcome Item 2-11: 4-point Likert scale (min.: 0, max.:3) Item 2,3,4,5 and 8 higher values indicate worse outcome Item 6,7,9,10 and 11 higher values indicate better outcome |
14 weeks
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Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Lesson evaluation
Time Frame: After each lesson during the intervention (during week 8-10)
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Each lesson (1-8) of the online part of the blended learning course was evaluated using the following questions: "How much time (in minutes) did you spend working on this lesson?" "How concentrated did you work on the content of this lesson?" "I give this lesson an overall grade ..." "Here is space for your feedback on this lesson (e.g. criticism, suggestions, proposals for improvement)" |
After each lesson during the intervention (during week 8-10)
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Ruth E von Brachel, Dr., Ruhr-University Bochum
Study record dates
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Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
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Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 16DHB3010
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
IPD Sharing Time Frame
IPD Sharing Access Criteria
In order to access the IPD, users must agree to the Data Recipient Agreement and Terms of Use of the internet database Psychdata (https://www.psychdata.de/index.php?main=take&sub=empfang&lang=eng).
These, among other things, exclude commercial use of the data, protect the interests of the data providers, and ensure the anonymity of the individuals studied.
IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type
- Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP)
- Analytic Code
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