Communication Practices to Develop the Health Literacy Competencies in Nursing Students

University of Cadiz

Status: Completed

Conditions: Competence; Nursing Students; Health Literacy

Treatments: Behavioral: Multimodal intervention (communication and education simulations) for EG1

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06490406

sol-201900138441-tra

Details and patient eligibility

About

Communication is a key health literacy educational competency in the professional training of health providers. However, students often have difficulty in applying theoretical communication models to the reality of clinical practice. Multimodal interventions based on simulation models emerge as an essential element to overcome this gap. During the simulation training, students must be aware of their communication errors and the needs that patients share in a clinical interaction.

The aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of multimodal training, which incorporates a systematic feedback guide about the student's clinical interview simulation performance, as a training complement to classical education to improve health literacy competencies and clear communication practices in health sciences students.

A randomized controlled trial will be conducted on 82 second-year nursing students recruited from the University of Cadiz. The experimental and control groups will receive the same communication multimodal training except for the inclusion of feedback on key aspects of communication for health literacy, which the experimental groups only used. Students will be assessed through clinical interview simulations by external observers. Bivariate and inferential statistical analyses will be carried out.

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 67 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Second-year nursing students at the University of Cadiz enrolled in the Interpersonal Communication Skills subject.

Exclusion criteria

• Absence in training.
• Does not consent to participate in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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82 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental Group 1 (EG1)

Experimental group

Description:

In addition to the usual training in communication skills, a systematic and digitalized guide will be used that included the "health literacy practices" qualified by Coleman et al. \[10\] as a training complement and self-assessment of its performance. They will also receive feedback from independent observers (according to the systematic guide).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Multimodal intervention (communication and education simulations) for EG1

Control Group / Experimental Group 2 (CG / EG2)

No Intervention group

Description:

The CG will receive the usual training (consisting of two weekly meetings of two hours each with seven sessions whose main topics were social skills for clinical interviews: opening and closing of the clinical interviews, non-verbal communication, active listening, empathy, helping relationship, giving information about the nature of the disease and rationality of the therapeutic measures, health education, and negotiation). Furthermore, throughout the course, they will self-assess their performance using the opening video recording without systematic guidance and they will receive feedback about their communication practices during this first performance. Thus, CG will receive the full intervention after being evaluated (post-test 1 assessment), becoming the delayed Experimental Group 2 (EG2)