NCT05434221

Communication Skill Training Program for Occupational Therapy Interns

Development and Evaluation of a Communication Skill Training Program for Occupational Therapy Interns

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 216 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Effective communication is one of important skills in occupational therapy (OT) practice, affecting the effectiveness and quality of therapy. Although there are only a few courses on communication skills related to OT, there is a lack of a complete, suitable, and evidence-based OT communication skills teaching programs that can effectively improve the interns' communication skills. The purpose of the study is to develop a communication skills training program for occupational therapy interns in physical dysfunction practice (COPE), and examine the effectiveness of COPE.

Conditions

• Education, Medical

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	COPE	The experimental group receives the COPE during their internships. The COPE consists of two part: (1) communication skills teaching and simulation practice; (2) clinical communication teaching: record the clinical treatment process of the interns and turn them into verbatim drafts. Experts then complied the strengths and weaknesses of the interns' communication skills based on the verbatim manuscripts and gave feedback on the interns' communication skills. The interns in the experimental group will participate 1 time of the communication skills teaching and simulation practice, and 3 times of the clinical communication teaching in three months.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-10-23
• Primary completion: 2025-06-30
• Completion: 2025-12-30
• First posted: 2022-06-27
• Last updated: 2022-06-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan