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Self-guided vs Traditional Instructor-led Learning for Medical Device Training (EVALUATING)

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Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

Status

Completed

Conditions

Simulation Training
Professional Role
Learning Problem
Interprofessional Education

Treatments

Other: self-guided learning

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05530382
Videolearning

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study project is to clarify whether defined practical application skills are learned by anesthesiology specialists through a self-directed learning program with learning videos and a hands-on exercise station ("intervention group"). "Control group" is a traditional instructor-led practical workshop classroom teaching.

Hypothesis: A video-based and self-directed learning program shows no difference in the learning successes than traditional face-to-face workshops.

Full description

The Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine is going to buy and introduce a new generation of anaesthetic machines. Therefore the whole clinical staff of the department who will operate the new anaesthetic machine in the future must be educated and trained with this device before working with patients.

Continuous professional training in the use of medical devices is an essential part of developing professional skills, including in anaesthesia. The professional, routine use of devices is essential to guarantee patient safety. The usual instructor-led workshop-based equipment training in face-to-face lessons is time-consuming and resource-intensive. The high work intensity and shift work in anaesthesia pose a challenge for such training courses. Video-supported learning sequences were more effective than traditional face-to-face lessons, especially for procedural - cognitive processes of complex psychomotor skills. Self-controlled practical practice is more effective than externally controlled practice conditions.

The aim of this study is to clarify whether defined practical application skills (anaesthetic machine) are learned by anesthesiology specialists (nurses and physicians of the department) through a self-directed learning program with learning videos and a hands-on exercise station ("intervention group"). "Control group" is a traditional instructor-led practical workshop classroom teaching.

• The null hypothesis (H0) is that a video-based and self-directed learning program shows no difference in the learning success than traditional face-to-face workshops

The aim of this study is to clarify whether anesthesiologists and nurses anaesthetists can learn defined practical application skills through a self-directed learning program with learning videos and a hands-on training station. If this educational research project is able to demonstrate that self-guided learning of complex psychomotor skills needed for the handling of medical devices like respirators is non-inferior to traditional classroom teaching of such skills, this might minimize the dependence on traditional educator-driven resource-intensive workshop teaching and has the potential to change clinical teaching in the future. The educational topic of the study is "device training in the hospital sector".

A randomized controlled comparative study with two groups (face-to-face workshop versus video-based self-directed learning) in a non-inferiority design is planned, assuming a non-inferior success rate of the traditional face-to-face workshop of 80% and a non-inferiority range of 10%. According to a sample size calculation, 224 voluntary participants are needed.

Enrollment

224 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Clinical working anaesthesia staff of the Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Bern University Hospital
  • written consent

Exclusion criteria

  • not fulfilling inclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

224 participants in 2 patient groups

self-guided learning (video and hands-on simulation)
Experimental group
Description:
video-based self-directed learning
Treatment:
Other: self-guided learning
traditional instructor-led learning
No Intervention group
Description:
traditional instructor-led learning in face-to-face workshop

Trial contacts and locations

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