Communication Skill Training Program for Occupational Therapy Interns (COPE)

National Taiwan University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Education, Medical

Treatments: Other: COPE

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05434221

202006114RINC

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 216 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

[interns]

• age ≥ 20 years
• an intern of occupational therapy

[patients]

• age ≥ 20 years
• enable to communicate with the others

Exclusion criteria

[interns]

• unwilling to be recorded

[patients]

• have communication barriers
• unwilling to be recorded

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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216 participants in 2 patient groups

Experiment group

Experimental group

Description:

interns in the experiment group receive COPE during their internship.

Treatment:

Other: COPE

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

interns in the control group do not receive any specific communication training during their internship.