NCT04308707

Breaking Bad News Skills of Doctors and Residents in the Surgical Setting

Breaking Bad News Skills of Doctors and Residents in Anesthesia and Surgical Specialties in Spain: a Cross-sectional Survey

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hospital Clinic of Barcelona · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Breaking bad news is a very stressful and difficult situation for health care professionals, especially clinical doctors and surgeons. Acquiring skills for this sort of communication is very important due to the large volume of times that these professionals will have to deal with it and because it can affect the doctor-patient relationship forever. The objective of this study is to evaluate the skill of surgeons and residents in surgical specialties in breaking bad news to patients and families across Spanish hospitals. This will be done by analyzing the subjects in terms of their knowledge and experience using a specialized questionnaire based on breaking bad news protocol, designed in the "Hospital Sant Joan de Déu" Children's hospital in Barcelona.

Conditions

• Communication Research
• Patient Satisfaction
• Communication Programs
• Doctor Patient Relation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Breaking bad news skills	Communication skills analyzed by a specialized questionnaire designed from a Breaking bad news protocol developed in 2018-2019 in Barcelona.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-03-16
• Primary completion: 2025-12-31
• Completion: 2026-12-31
• First posted: 2020-03-16
• Last updated: 2024-10-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain