Simulation in Physical Therapy Students

Universidad de la Sabana

Status: Completed

Conditions: Simulation Training

Treatments: Behavioral: Pedagogyc Strategy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04428892

ENF-19-2017

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomized trial included physiotherapy students, randomized in two groups, experimental one included simulation for developed competencies related to clinical reasoning in physiotherapy interventions for people with low back pain. The second group developed role-playing. this protocol allows us to compare two strategies with simulation for to promote clinical decisions in physiotherapy practice.

Full description

Low back pain (LBP) is symptomatology with a high global prevalence; health professionals, including physiotherapists, must have the skills to create professional interaction plans that permit a better quality of life for consultants. Clinical simulation can be a pedagogic setting that facilitates students with adequate training to acquire skills that improve professional reasoning in this clinical situation. The objective of this study was to compare the effects of clinical simulation with a simulated patient (SP) versus simulation with role-playing (RP) in physiotherapy students for decision-making in clinical skills while caring for a person with LBP. Methods. An experimental study, with 42 participants from two Colombian universities, randomized into two groups (SP n = 21, RP n = 21). The clinical skill was evaluated during the interaction with a person with LBP for which the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE-ML) was validated for individuals with low back pain; thereafter, a pedagogical method was conducted that included clinical simulation and, finally, the OSCE-ML was applied again to compare both groups.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 23 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Physiotherapy students in five-semester from Universidad de La Sabana and Universidad de Boyacá

Exclusion criteria

• under-age subjects
• those who had been internally or externally transferred from another academic program in health,
• exchange students
• those repeating
• with prior experiences in simulated practice in other assignments

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Clinical Simulation

Experimental group

Description:

The group denominated SP received a teaching strategy based on a class session with simulated practice for decision-making in clinical skills when caring for a person with LBP. Each session lasted approximately 120 minutes, and the clinical case used for the SP sessions was subjected to face validity with experts in the area of study.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pedagogyc Strategy

Conventional Pedagogical strategy

Active Comparator group

Description:

received a class session based on a "role playing" simulation strategy, structured for the same purpose established in the SP group. This session lasted approximately 120 minutes, and the learning environment was the classroom in which students assumed different roles to act out; some of them acted as people with LBP and others as physiotherapists

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pedagogyc Strategy