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Improving Occupational Therapy Students' Holistic Care Competencies Through a Structured Holistic Thinking Curriculum: a Mixed Design

NCT05868096 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2023-11-15

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Summary

Background: Occupational therapy emphasizes the holistic approach, but occupational therapy students are unable to use holistic thinking to design holistic solutions for cases immediately during their internship due to their lack of clinical experience, which requires extensive guidance from clinical occupational therapist.

Study Aim: To improve the holistic care competencies of occupational therapy students using a structured holistic thinking curriculum.

Methods: The study population was occupational therapy interns from a northern teaching hospital. The holistic thinking curriculum was designed as a structured program using mind maps, case-based discussions, and clinical observations to integrate physical, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects. The experimental group took a pre-test after a case report in weeks 4 and 5, a first post-test and course satisfaction after the first structured holistic thinking course, and a second structured holistic thinking course with a second post-test and course satisfaction in weeks 11 and 12; the control group had no course but had a guided version of the holistic thinking case study form for independent study, and the control and experimental groups were tested pre and post using the holistic thinking case study form and the personal learning self-efficacy scale.

Data analysis: Quantitative data for the holistic thinking case study form were determined by three occupational therapists with at least 5 years of teaching experience through consensus conferences to determine the degree of compliance of the case study form with holistic care, and differences between the holistic thinking case study form and the personal learning self-efficacy scale were determined by Kruskal-Wallis with a p-value of 0.05. Qualitative data for the holistic thinking case study form were determined by three occupational therapists with at least 5 years of teaching experience to determine the degree of compliance of the case study form with holistic care and regular meetings were held to achieve consistency in coding.

Conditions

  • Holistic Care Competencies of Occupational Therapy Students

Interventions

OTHER

Structured holistic thinking course(2 hr)

The holistic thinking curriculum was designed as a structured program using mind maps, case-based discussions, and clinical observations to integrate physical, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects.

OTHER

Clinical practice training

there is no holistic thinking curriculum.Using the holistic thinking case study form - introductory version self-study

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-07-17
Primary Completion
2024-06-30
Completion
2024-06-30

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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