Effectiveness of a Multimodal Intervention With Simulation for Learning Home Health Nursing Care of Patients With Multimorbidity and Heart Failure

University of Cadiz

Status: Completed

Conditions: Multimorbidity; Heart Failure

Treatments: Other: Training in high-fidelity simulation and knowledge of care protocols in patients with multimorbidity and heart failure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06855719

087_2024

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the efficacy of a multimodal intervention with high-fidelity simulations on home health nursing in improving the care of multipathological patients with heart failure in nursing students. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Does using validated simulation scenarios on multipathological patients with heart failure improve care competencies in nursing students?
• Does knowledge of scientific evidence and healthcare protocols improve nursing students' performance in the simulator?

Researchers will compare a multimodal intervention with high-fidelity simulations on home health nursing to conventional intervention (theoretical teaching) to see if nursing students better learn competencies related to the care of patients with multimorbidity and heart failure during the home health nursing.

Participants will:

• Experience simulations on validated simulation scenarios on multipathological patients with heart failure (All participants).
• Reflect on the intervention performed on the simulator through individual and group debriefings (Experimental Group).
• Learn about the main scientific evidence and international and national protocols related to comorbidities and health failure (Experimental Group).

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Nursing students enrolled in the subject "Family and Community Nursing I".

Exclusion criteria

• Lack of attendance since the beginning of the course.
• Failure to follow the instructions of the instructors during the course of the study.
• Voluntary withdrawal from the study during the study or declaring non-participation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental Group

Experimental group

Description:

Students will receive simulation training, which will be evaluated through individual and group debriefing sessions. They will also have access to their recording simulations for autonomous learning. They will learn the protocols and current scientific evidence on the care of multipathologic patients with heart failure.

Treatment:

Other: Training in high-fidelity simulation and knowledge of care protocols in patients with multimorbidity and heart failure

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Students will receive only theoretical teaching about primary health care in nursing.