Evaluation of a Communication Skills Training for Nurses (KOMPAT)

Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Communication

Treatments: Behavioral: Communication skills training for nurses

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05700929

1047/136

Details and patient eligibility

About

The KOMPAT study aims to evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of a needs-based communication skills training for nursing professionals in Germany and to derive recommendations for future long-term implementation. Therefore, a training program to foster communication skills of nursing professionals has been developed based on a previously conducted needs assessment and literature research. To evaluate the training a randomized controlled trail with a waitlist-control group will be conducted. It is aimed to include 180 nurses within the study, of which 90 nurse will be randomized in a stratified manner to the intervention group and 90 nurses will be randomized to the waitlist-control group. Outcomes will be assessed at baseline, post -training and 4-weeks follow-up. It is hypothesized that self-efficacy in communication with patients and further outcomes will be significantly higher among participants in the intervention group compared to participants of the waitlist-control group during post-training assessment and follow-up. The evaluation will be accompanied by a process evaluation. The training will be facilitated by a member of the research team and a nursing professional by applying the train-the-trainer approach. The KOMPAT study will be conducted at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.

Enrollment: 207 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Nurses working at the participating departments of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
• Main part of daily work includes communication with patients
• Age ≥ 18 years
• Completed educational program as a nurse
• German-speaking

Exclusion criteria

• Little or no contact with patients in daily work, e.g. an operating room nurse or within the bed management

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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207 participants in 2 patient groups

Communication skills training

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention is a one-day face-to-face training to foster patient-centered communication skills of nursing professionals at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. The training is developed based on results of a previously conducted needs assessment with nurses, medical assistants and nursing service managers as well as literature research and will be rolled out after baseline assessment and randomization.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Communication skills training for nurses

Waitlist-control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants of the waitlist-control group receive no specific study related intervention. Participants of this group will be offered a communication skills training after complete data collection of all participants of the RCT has been finished.