CompletedNot Applicable

Improving Breaking Bad News in Pediatrics by Simulated Communication

Austria46 participantsStarted 2021-09-01

Plain-language summary

Breaking bad news, especially a death notice, is an essential part of the medical profes-sional communication. Being inadequately trained in those skills this may result in un-pleasant psychosocial consequences for everyone involved. This prospective, single-center, randomized controlled trial evaluated the delivery of a death notice to simulation parents out of the perspective of these parents (professional actors), the participants (students) and by video analysis. The simulation patient has prior unexpectedly died during a simulated resuscitation. The intervention group broke the bad news after receiving a short communication

Who can participate

Age range18 Years – 75 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Medical students, enrolled at the Medical University of Vienna. * Successful completion the mandatory basic life support training "Block 16" in the third year of medical training and * Successful completion of the mandatory communication seminar "Ärztliche Gesprächsführung B" also in the third year of medical training. * Obtained written informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: * quality of the obtained video recordings were unsatisfactory and not usable for analysis * unmet inclusion criteria

What they're measuring

score by simulation parents

Timeframe: up to 1 hour after the simulation

Trial details

NCT IDNCT06376188

SponsorMedical University of Vienna

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2022-08-31

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