Identifying Learning Strategies to Improve Blood Pressure Measurement in Physical Therapy Education Programs

Youngstown State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Blood Pressure Measurement

Treatments: Other: Multi-component teaching content

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04976452

2021-122

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine an effective teaching strategy for Physical Therapy students in a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program that will produce consistent and accurate measuring of patient BP readings in the healthcare clinic according to the guidelines established by the AHA.

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

This study is anticipated to have 40-45 students as participants that can vary in age range, but will mostly be centered around the 21-30 year old age range demographically. Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students that are enrolled in the DPT program at Youngstown State will be recruited for this study, along with, patients who receive Physical Therapy services at the Midlothian Free Clinic. The participants will also come from both gender groups, with no exclusion criteria based on age and gender for this study.

Exclusion Criteria:

Group 1 Exclusion criteria (Experimental group):

1. Must be admitted to DPT program at Youngstown State University
2. Complete the Blood Pressure (BP) measure training module in the Clinical Skills Foundation
3. Pass the competency lab examination in Clinical Skills Foundation (> 80% score)

Group 2 Exclusion criteria (Control group):

1. Must be admitted to DPT program at Youngstown State University
2. Have not completed the BP training module (AMA) and competency lab examination in the Clinical Skills Foundation course

Patient Exclusion criteria:

1. Must be able to follow basic commands
2. Must be able to perform a transfer to multiple surfaces

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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82 participants in 2 patient groups

Group 1

Experimental group

Description:

Group 1 will include first year Physical Therapy students who will be trained for Blood Pressure (BP) measurement using a brief powerpoint lecture, completion of an interactive BP measurement module from the American Medical Association which includes a quiz assessment and certificate of completion, and a competency examination during the lab portion of class.

Treatment:

Other: Multi-component teaching content

Group 2

No Intervention group

Description:

Group 2 consists of second year PT students who only had a powerpoint lecture on Blood Pressure measurement that was done virtually with no lab component or American Medical Association interactive module training.