NCT06258460

Multimodal Psychotherapy Training for Chinese Medical Students

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Multimodal Psychotherapy Training Program for Medical Students in China: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 180 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Providing evidence-based, well-designed psychotherapy teaching to train them to get a basic understanding of psychotherapy and to gain required skills for clinical practice would be fundamental to medical students, residency. This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of multimodal psychotherapy training program for medical students in China.

Detailed description

Background and aims: Providing evidence-based, well-designed psychotherapy teaching for medical students and residents is urgently needed. The aim of this project is to measure the effectiveness of a newly multimodal psychotherapy teaching program for medical students and residents in China. Design: This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT). The intervention group will receive a two-day multimodal-based intensive educational intervention with 8 weeks follow-up (supervision based online teaching). The wait-list control group will not receive the intervention until the end of the study. Both groups will be followed up to 8 weeks. Setting: This trial will be conduct at the Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital. Participants: This study aims to recruit about 160 medical students and residents, with approximately 80 in each group. Measurements: The primary outcome measure is the changes of the Facilitative Interpersonal Skills task (FIS) scores. Secondary outcome measures include: training program acceptability; trainees' psychotherapy knowledge; utilization of psychotherapy; and self-reported self-efficacy and self-reported motivation for psychotherapy. Comments: If this CBT-based brief and short-term psychotherapy skill training program is proven effective, the mental health impact of its expansion nation-wide could be enormous.

Conditions

• Mental Illness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	psychotherapy training program intervention	The intervention group will receive a two-day multimodal-based intensive educational intervention of CBT with 8 weeks follow-up (supervision based online teaching).
OTHER	the wail-list control intervention	The wail-list control group will receive a message encouraging them to complete all questionnaires from baseline to the last follow-up at 8 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-02-01
• Primary completion: 2024-04-01
• Completion: 2024-04-15
• First posted: 2024-02-14
• Last updated: 2024-02-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China