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Interprofessional Training in a Psychiatric Study Unit

NCT03070977 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 430

Last updated 2019-04-16

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Summary

Research question and basic idea:

Interprofessional collaboration is a skill that many health professionals need to develop. Interprofessional training offers a way to improve collaboration and patient care. The increasing number of psychiatric patients with complex needs, requires mental healthcare providers to enhance their skills. It necessitates that healthcare professionals collaborate effectively; nevertheless, many have not been trained in an interprofessional environment. Health professionals lack sufficient knowledge of other professional roles and competences to engage in teamwork. Interprofessional training units have been designed to create an optimal learning environment for healthcare students. These training units provide a new environment for learning, where students can learn from each other and develop competence in interprofessional collaboration. This collaboration gives students from several health professions an opportunity to achieve a greater understanding of the overall picture of the patient´s life. The limited data available suggest interprofessional collaboration interventions can improve health-care processes and outcomes; however, better designed studies are needed.

Objective: Therefore, we will investigate whether placement at a psychiatric training unit compared with placement at a standard psychiatric ward improves students' interprofessional skills and patients' health status and satisfaction.

Conditions

  • Interdisciplinary Communication

Interventions

OTHER

Interprofessional clinical training unit

In 2015, Psychiatry in Slagelse established an interprofessional clinical training unit. The aim was to create a new environment for learning, where students could learn from each other and develop competence in interprofessional collaboration. In the training unit there are more students than in the other standard psychiatric wards and several professions are included. A facilitator team is responsible for the interprofessional training. In autumn 2016 seven professionals participate in course of facilitating interprofessional collaboration and training. The intervention involved the total staff participation in an initial workshop. The training unit is based on two educational interventions: Student participation in clinical care teams and interprofessional group tuition sessions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Copenhagen

    collaborator OTHER

  • Psychiatric Research Unit, Region Zealand, Denmark

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sidse Arnfred, MD, Dr.med · Psychiatric Research Unit, Region Zealand, Denmark

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-11-30
Primary Completion
2018-05-31
Completion
2018-05-31

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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