Culture is Care: Training Workshop for Care Workers (VerbaCurant)

Azienda Ospedaliera SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria

Status: Completed

Conditions: Empathy; Well-Being, Psychological

Treatments: Other: Training about storytelling and creative writing: 12 hours; Other: Training only about theoretical narrative medicine: 4 hours

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06410560

ASO.IRFI.21.02

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to measure the empathic capacity of healthcare professionals belonging to the Alessandria Hospital, by applying validated measuring instruments, before and after a specific training intervention. The secondary objective is to assess how the training initiative impacts on subjects with a different attitude towards cultural participation.

Full description

The aim of this project is to identify how a medical humanities intervention can act on the empathic capacity of carers through culture. One of the aims is to introduce an additional element to overcome the problems about language, prejudices, legitimisation by stakeholders who do not yet recognise the value and importance of projects promoting the relationship between culture, wellbeing and health. "Verba Curant" is aimed at generating cultural value, with the hope that it can unite the different professional fields involved and become the heritage of the community.

The project of the Alessandria Hospital Centre in collaboration with the Holden School intends to launch a series of actions aimed at promoting the beneficial impact of culture, in particular storytelling, on the caregivers and patients of the Alessandria Hospital in order to measure how much cultural enjoyment can impact on health literacy. It is planned to define a methodological tool useful for making care workers aware of the importance of culture and dialogue with patients, as well as being able to measure their degree of literacy. The tool will be the object of a widespread training action on care workers, which will also involve all the stakeholders involved in the transmission of health information to patients.

Enrollment: 175 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Health professionals related to the Alessandria Hospital

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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175 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Training workshop with hands-on laboratory

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will undergo a training course for a total of 12 hours: 4 FAD + 8 in the laboratory. They will receive theoretical narrative medicine education with 4 hours of distance education and a practice course of storytelling and creative writing whit 8 hours of distance education in small groups, enabling discussion and interaction among participants.

Treatment:

Other: Training about storytelling and creative writing: 12 hours

Brief training course

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Participants will undergo a training course for a total of 4 FAD hours. They will receive theoretical narrative medicine education with 4 hours of distance education.

Treatment:

Other: Training only about theoretical narrative medicine: 4 hours