Education for Recognition and Management of Delirium

Sponsor
Taipei Medical University (Other)
Overall Status
Completed
CT.gov ID
NCT03642249
Collaborator
(none)
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Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Delirium is a disturbance in consciousness with reduced ability to focus, sustain, or shift attention that occurs over a short period of time and tends to fluctuate over the course of the day. 50% to 81.7% had delirium during their ICU hospitalization. Delirium is associated with increased physical restraint, ventilation use, length of ICU stay, and mortality. However, there is no established delirium care pathway in target hospital. Chen et al. (2014) demonstrated that structured assessment stations with immediate feedback may improve overall learning efficiency over an EBP workshop alone. However, no published delirium care education study has used OSCEs as an intervention for healthcare professionals. The aim is to evaluate the effects of implementing a Scenario-based education intervention, including objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) on delirium care among healthcare professionals. This is a knowledge translation research, builds on eight years of delirium care research in University of Wollongong, Australia. The research will be undertaken at ICUs in a medical center in northern of Taiwan. There are two phases: (1) systematic review to identify delirium screen tool, and (2) a randomized controlled trial was conducted to determine the effects of implementing a Scenario-based education intervention, including OSCE (experimental group), and on-line education only (control group) focused on recognition and management of delirium. The hypothesis is: Scenario-based education intervention, including OSCE can increase the competence and self-efficacy among healthcare professionals in delirium care.

Condition or Disease Intervention/Treatment Phase
  • Behavioral: OSCEs
  • Behavioral: Lecture
  • Behavioral: E-learning
N/A

Detailed Description

OSCEs are an integral aspect of all levels of medical education but limited to undergraduate nursing and allied health education. OSCEs are rarely used in the workplace as learning activities with nursing and allied health clinicians. This is the reason why this education initiative was innovative. OSCEs are simulated 'real life' clinical scenarios presented to clinicians who are required to demonstrate to an assessor the clinical tasks which form an OSCE scenario.

Study Design

Study Type:
Interventional
Actual Enrollment :
72 participants
Allocation:
Randomized
Intervention Model:
Parallel Assignment
Masking:
Single (Investigator)
Primary Purpose:
Health Services Research
Official Title:
Evaluating the Effects of Implementing an Scenario-based Education Initiative and OSCE for Recognition and Management of Delirium in Adult Intensive Care Unit: Randomised Controlled Trial
Actual Study Start Date :
Nov 5, 2019
Actual Primary Completion Date :
Dec 24, 2019
Actual Study Completion Date :
Dec 31, 2019

Arms and Interventions

Arm Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: experimental group

face-to-face delirium care session (30 minutes in duration); online learning delirium care activities (20 minutes in duration); and delirium care OSCE and reflective activity (30 minutes in duration).

Behavioral: OSCEs
Scenario-based education intervention, including objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs)

Behavioral: Lecture
Face-to-face Education using Delirium Care Flip Chart

Behavioral: E-learning
Including 7 parts of delirium care video

Active Comparator: control group

face-to-face delirium care session (30 minutes in duration); online learning delirium care activities (20 minutes in duration)

Behavioral: Lecture
Face-to-face Education using Delirium Care Flip Chart

Behavioral: E-learning
Including 7 parts of delirium care video

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

  1. Change from Baseline Delirium Knowledge and Skills at the time Immediately after the intervention and Six weeks [T0(Baseline), T1(Immediately after the intervention), T2(Six weeks after the intervention)]

    Delirium Knowledge and Skills Test (included 18 questions)

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:
N/A and Older
Sexes Eligible for Study:
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Yes
Inclusion Criteria:
  • Registered nurse worked in acute care unit and care with critical patients

  • Licensed physician which undertake the post graduate year program worked in acute care unit and care with critical patients

Exclusion Criteria:
  • Unwilling to involved the research

Contacts and Locations

Locations

Site City State Country Postal Code
1 Wan Fang Hospital Taipei Taiwan 116

Sponsors and Collaborators

  • Taipei Medical University

Investigators

  • Study Director: Kee-Hsin Chen, PhD, Taipei Medical University

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

Responsible Party:
Taipei Medical University
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT03642249
Other Study ID Numbers:
  • N201803104
First Posted:
Aug 22, 2018
Last Update Posted:
Mar 30, 2020
Last Verified:
Sep 1, 2019
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
No
Plan to Share IPD:
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:
No
Keywords provided by Taipei Medical University
Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Mar 30, 2020