Assessing the Knowledge and Self-confidence of Healthcare Workers to Perform Transurethral Catheterization: A Multicenter Survey

Rationale: Healthcare professionals regularly perform transurethral catheterization. They may have not sufficient knowledge, experience, and self-confidence about urethral catheterization. This can cause an increased risk of urethral catheterization-related injury and morbidity. With an appropriate training program, we can raise the knowledge and self-confidence of healthcare professionals in performing transurethral catheterization.

Primary Objective: To compare knowledge and self-confidence amongst healthcare workers in performing urethral catheterization before and after the proposed urethral catheterization training program.

Secondary Objective: To compare the traumatic catheterization rates before and after the proposed urethral catheterization training program.

Study design: This study is a prospective multi-center trial using a questionnaire for assessing the healthcare professionals about urethral catheterization knowledge and self-confidence before and after a urethral catheterization training program, where their evaluation is scheduled 6 months after the training.

Study population: The study population comprises medical health workers (nurses, paramedics and doctors) from 5 different Medipol Hospitals working at surgical and non-surgical departments.

Intervention: An in-person urethral catheterization training program that utilizes training videos (demonstrating procedures, providing examples of ordinary and difficult cases, utilizing animation techniques as well) Main study parameters/endpoints: Primary endpoint is the change in self-reported self-confidence and knowledge in urethral catheterization following the training. The secondary endpoint is the change in complicated/traumatic urethral catheterization following the training. A complicated/traumatic catheterization is defined as a urethral catheterization requiring the intervention of a urologist.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Catheter Complications; Catheter Related Complication; Urethral Catheterization; Urethral Catheterization Related Injury
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Training Program

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 1000

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Gökhan Çalık; Phone Number: +90533 934 38 50; Email: gcalik@medipol.edu.tr
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Betül Berşan Kartal; Email: bbkartal@medipol.edu.tr

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Bağcılar
    • Istanbul, Bağcılar, Turkey, 34214
      • Recruiting
      • Medipol Mega University Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 70 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

Healthcare workers

Description

Inclusion Criteria: Healthcare workers (paramedics, nurses, and doctors) working in the emergency department, intensive care, operating rooms, departments of gynecology, general surgery, urology, orthopedics, neurology, internal medicine, cardiology, and anesthesiology -

Exclusion Criteria: Healthcare workers that not working non-clinic services,

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Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Health Workers; Doctors, nurses, paramedics, midwifes	Other: Training Program; An in-person urethral catheterization training program that utilizes training videos (demonstrating procedures, providing examples of ordinary and difficult cases, utilizing animation techniques as well)

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Studying The Reason For Traumatic Catheterization Through Surveys	Evaluating the reason why traumatic catheterization happens (lack of experience, stress, challenging case, wrong equipment, etc.) through surveys prepared for health care workers that are involved in catheterization process.	1 year
Reducing The Traumatic Catheterization Case Number Through The Training and Comparison Surveys	After the initial survey results, health care workers will go through a special training period for relearning correct catheterization methods. After the training, case numbers will be compared to before the training period and same survey will be distributed again to health care workers to compare their initial and final survey results.	1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Betul Kartal
• Collaborators: Istanbul Medipol University Hospital
• Investigators: Study Director: Özgür Arıkan, oarikan@medipol.edu.tr

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 1, 2021
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): September 1, 2022
• Study Completion (Anticipated): December 31, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 11, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 18, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): April 19, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 19, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 18, 2022
• Last Verified: April 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 10010 (CTEP)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED
• IPD Plan Description: Data will be provided by request according to the primary objectives of the IPD study and according to the availability in the present trial

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No