Multimodal Psychotherapy Training for Chinese Medical Students

Zhejiang University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Mental Illness

Treatments: Other: psychotherapy training program intervention; Other: the wail-list control intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06258460

2024-0066

Details and patient eligibility

About

Providing evidence-based, well-designed psychotherapy teaching to train them to get a basic understanding of psychotherapy and to gain required skills for clinical practice would be fundamental to medical students, residency. This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of multimodal psychotherapy training program for medical students in China.

Full description

Background and aims: Providing evidence-based, well-designed psychotherapy teaching for medical students and residents is urgently needed. The aim of this project is to measure the effectiveness of a newly multimodal psychotherapy teaching program for medical students and residents in China.

Design: This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT). The intervention group will receive a two-day multimodal-based intensive educational intervention with 8 weeks follow-up (supervision based online teaching). The wait-list control group will not receive the intervention until the end of the study. Both groups will be followed up to 8 weeks.

Setting: This trial will be conduct at the Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital.

Participants: This study aims to recruit about 160 medical students and residents, with approximately 80 in each group.

Measurements: The primary outcome measure is the changes of the Facilitative Interpersonal Skills task (FIS) scores. Secondary outcome measures include: training program acceptability; trainees' psychotherapy knowledge; utilization of psychotherapy; and self-reported self-efficacy and self-reported motivation for psychotherapy.

Comments: If this CBT-based brief and short-term psychotherapy skill training program is proven effective, the mental health impact of its expansion nation-wide could be enormous.

Enrollment: 180 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Medical student, residents, health care providers
2. 18 years of age or older
3. Expressing an interest in psychotherapy
4. Willingness to received randomization
5. Willing to provide informed consent to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

1. Not health care providers
2. Below 18 years old
3. Unwilling to be randomized
4. Unable to provide informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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180 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

the two-day psychotherapy training program with 8-week follow-ups intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

All participants from the intervention group will receive the two-day psychotherapy training program. They will receive a hard copy booklet of the psychotherapy training program at recruitment. In addition, supervision-based group meeting will be hold at week 1, 2, 4, and 8 during follow-ups, and each meeting will be lasted for approximately two hours. At each follow-up meeting, the teachers, including psychotherapists and psychiatrists, will be prepared to answer any psychotherapy related questions, encourage them to practice psychological interventions, and provide more information for participants' clinical application of psychotherapy.

Treatment:

Other: psychotherapy training program intervention

the wail-list control group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

After consent is given, participants who are allocated to the wail-list control group will receive a message encouraging them to complete all questionnaires from baseline to the last follow-up at 8 weeks. They will receive messages via WeChat to thank them for being in the study and reminding them of the time until the completion of the study at 8 weeks follow-up. They will receive a digital booklet of the psychotherapy training program via the WeChat individual messaging platform at recruitment, or a hard copy on request. After the trial ends, participants in the control arm will be able to receive the psychotherapy training program for free.

Treatment:

Other: the wail-list control intervention