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Soft Skills and Surgical Performance

NCT01137305 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2010-06-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Background and hypothesis:

Virtual reality (VR) training in minimal invasive surgery (MIS) is known to be feasible and beneficial in surgical residency. Research on stress- coping in surgical trainees indicate an additional impact of soft skills on VR- performance. Thus to hypothesize soft skills predicting surgical performance in a VR- setting.

Method:

A prospective randomized controlled single center educational trial was carried out to evaluate the impact of structured VR- training and defined soft skills such as self- efficacy, stress- coping and motivation on VR- performance.

Conditions

  • Delivery of Health Care

Interventions

OTHER

VR- training

Prospective randomization if 50 subjects to either three months of structured VR- training or no training; basic VR- skills assessment and a serial assessment of defined soft skills: self- efficacy, stress- coping and motivation prior to randomization; basic VR- skills measured within seven modules of the VR- simulator LapSim®: "camera and instrument navigation", "coordination", "grasping", "lifting and grasping", "clip applying" and "diathermy cutting" in different levels of difficulty- medium and hard referring to "time to complete task", "economy of instrument motion" and "tissue damage"; intervention group: sessions of 45 minutes each twice a week for three months; control group: no training

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Philipps University Marburg

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Iyad Hassan, MD · Department of Visceral-, Thoracic- and Vascular Surgery, Philipps- University Marburg, Germany

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-06-30
Primary Completion
2009-01-31
Completion
2009-05-31

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