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

Hospital Clinic of Barcelona

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Patient Satisfaction; Communication Research; Communication Programs; Doctor Patient Relation

Treatments: Other: Breaking bad news skills

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04308707

BBNS-SS

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Doctors working in the Surgical Setting that accept and answer the specialized questionnaire.

Exclusion criteria

• Questionnaire answered out of the time-frame
• Incomplete questionnaires

Trial design

50 participants in 2 patient groups

Surgical specialties

Treatment:

Other: Breaking bad news skills

Anesthesiology

Treatment:

Other: Breaking bad news skills