Add-on Video-based Training on Mental Status Examination Skills (VV-RCT)

Psychiatric Research Unit, Region Zealand, Denmark

Status: Completed

Conditions: Medical Education

Treatments: Other: E-course with written material on the mental status exam; Other: Video-based self-regulated training on the mental status exam

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05795387

VV_RCT

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical triall is to investigate the training effect of access to authentic patient video on mental status examination performance among 5th year Danish medical students.

Aim:

To investigate if

• Students with add-on access to an authentic patient video e-library have improved Mental Status Examination precision compared to students that only have an add-on e-library with simulated patient videos.
• Number of videos watched correlate to mental status examination test scores.

Full description

The main study is a a two-armed, pragmatic cluster-randomised, superiority, partial-blinded, randomized controlled trial where the interventions are e-learning courses that serves as add-on learning material during the psychiatric clerkship.

Two student groups are compared. The experimental intervention(V) is a larger e-learning module, where the students have access to 23 authentic patient video vignettes and an e-module on mental status exam including demonstration videos with simulated patients (actor videos). The comparator students (N-V) only have access to the e-module on mental status exam including demonstration videos with simulated patients. All students participate in the regular Psychiatry curriculum i.e. 16 lectures in one week and psychiatric clerkship in three weeks.

As students have their clerkship in 10 different facilities across the Island of Zealand, we carry out cluster-randomization based on clerkship location.

Communication, recruitment and data management is carried out within the university teaching platform (CANVAS), by manual extraction, and by questionnaires distributed by SurveyXact.

Enrollment: 290 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Consent
• 5th year medical student at the University of Copenhagen on the psychiatric clinical rotation

Exclusion criteria

• Previous acess to the video library.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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290 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental Add-on Intervention - Video-based self-regulated training

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention consist of access to the video e-library on their e-learning platform. The video e-library consists of 23 videos of brief patient interviews, mostly with inpatients, with adjoining MSE written by three faculty psychiatrists. Selected videos are used for demonstration of phenomena, and five videos will have audio explanation of the resulting MSE. As well as the authentic patient videos on the e-library there are some pages with written theoretical instructions on the MSE, a brief animated movie and some simulated videos by an actor all regarding the MSE.

Treatment:

Other: Video-based self-regulated training on the mental status exam

Non-video group

Active Comparator group

Description:

For the present trial, also the NV students will receive the same non-authentic patient material I.E written theoretical instructions on the MSE, a brief animated movie and some simulated videos by an actor all regarding the MSE. Ensuring it is the authentic patient video e-library and not the theoretical information responsible for the expected difference in scores.

Treatment:

Other: E-course with written material on the mental status exam