Enhancing Empathy in Medical Communication Through Perspective-Taking
Background: Empathy is critical to clinician-patient communication and patient outcomes. Perspective-taking, an intervention demonstrated in other contexts to induce empathy, has never been studied in a medical context. As a first step in evaluating its potential clinical value, the studies described below assess perspective taking in a series of clinical skills examinations. These examinations are simulated clinical encounters: students encounter and are evaluated by standardized patients (SPs)--actors trained to take on patient roles. Though not real clinical encounters, clinical skills examinations have been demonstrated to test clinical competency well enough to be incorporated into the licensure examination of the National Board of Medical Examiners.
Objective: To assess if perspective-taking improves the satisfaction of standardized patients in three clinical skills examinations.
Hypothesis: Students receiving a perspective taking intervention will receive better standardized patient satisfaction scores than control students.
Design and Setting: Three randomized, controlled studies. Studies 1 and 3: Junior medical students(N = 503), 6-station clinical skills examination. Study 2: physician assistant students (N = 105), 3-station clinical skills examination.
Intervention: The intervention students received a perspective-taking instruction prior to their examination asking them to put themselves in their "patients" shoes and to imagine what they were thinking and feeling. The control students received standard pre-examination instructions. Simulated patients were blind to study condition. Main Outcome Measure: Simulated patient satisfaction scores.
調査の概要
詳細な説明
研究の種類
入学 (実際)
段階
- 適用できない
連絡先と場所
研究場所
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District of Columbia
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Washington、District of Columbia、アメリカ、20037
- George Washington University School of Medicine
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参加基準
適格基準
就学可能な年齢
健康ボランティアの受け入れ
受講資格のある性別
説明
Inclusion Criteria:
- All third year medical and first and second year physician assistant students, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Exclusion Criteria:
- None
研究計画
研究はどのように設計されていますか?
デザインの詳細
- 割り当て:ランダム化
- 介入モデル:並列代入
- マスキング:独身
武器と介入
参加者グループ / アーム |
介入・治療 |
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実験的:Perspective taking intervention
Students were given an instruction to take the perspectives of their standardized patients
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Students were asked to take the perspective of their standardized patients during clinical skills examinations
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アクティブコンパレータ:Control
Students given standard instructions
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Students were asked to take the perspective of their standardized patients during clinical skills examinations
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この研究は何を測定していますか?
主要な結果の測定
結果測定 |
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standardized patient satisfaction
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協力者と研究者
捜査官
- スタディディレクター:Benjamin C Blatt, MD、George Washington University
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研究開始
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最終確認日
詳しくは
本研究に関する用語
その他の研究ID番号
- PT2009
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米国FDA規制機器製品の研究
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