Dressing of Tunneled Central Venous Catheter

Sponsor

University of Sao Paulo (Other)

Overall Status

Completed

CT.gov ID

NCT01614314

Collaborator

(none)

Enrollment

Location

Arms

Duration (Months)

8.7

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of nursing undergraduates in dressing of tunneled central venous access in the simulator, according to the aid of a preceptorship or an auto-instructional guide.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Nursing Students	Other: Preceptorship Other: Auto-instructional guide	N/A

Detailed Description

The simulation facilitates the acquisition of knowledge, skills and decision-making required for clinical practice. Mentoring has been employed and valued as pedagogical process qualifier.

The hypothesis of this study was that students who trained with the assistance of a preceptorship had better practical performance when compared to students who used an auto-instructional guide.

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Actual Enrollment :

35 participants

Allocation:

Randomized

Intervention Model:

Parallel Assignment

Masking:

None (Open Label)

Official Title:

Dressing of Tunneled Central Venous Catheter: Preceptorship's Presence or Use of Auto-instructional Guide

Study Start Date :

Aug 1, 2011

Actual Primary Completion Date :

Dec 1, 2011

Actual Study Completion Date :

Dec 1, 2011

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Active Comparator: Auto-instructional guide The subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of an auto-instructional guide, lasting one hour.	Other: Auto-instructional guide After attending a lecture and a video on the dressing of the tunneled central venous catheter, the subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of an auto-instructional guide, lasting one hour.
Experimental: Preceptorship The subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of a nurse preceptorship, lasting one hour.	Other: Preceptorship After attending a lecture and a video on the dressing of the tunneled central venous catheter, the subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of a nurse preceptorship, lasting one hour.

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Active Comparator: Auto-instructional guide

The subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of an auto-instructional guide, lasting one hour.

Other: Auto-instructional guide

After attending a lecture and a video on the dressing of the tunneled central venous catheter, the subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of an auto-instructional guide, lasting one hour.

Experimental: Preceptorship

The subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of a nurse preceptorship, lasting one hour.

Other: Preceptorship

After attending a lecture and a video on the dressing of the tunneled central venous catheter, the subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of a nurse preceptorship, lasting one hour.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Practical performance in carrying out dressing procedure [1 day, immediately after the training simulator]
The practical performance in carrying out dressing procedure of each student was analyzed according to a list of 28 steps of procedure, including the preparation of environment and material, antisepsis, curative application and recording (score: 0 to 35). The list of items used to analyze the steps of the catheter dressing procedure were face and content validated by five experts working in the oncology field.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years and Older

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Inclusion Criteria:

students regularly enrolled in the last year of the undergraduate nursing program of a public university

Exclusion Criteria:

students who did not comply with any of the study's phases
students who presented performance > 70% in the pretest

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	University of Sao Paulo at College of Nursing	Ribeirao Preto	Sao Paulo	Brazil	14040902

Sponsors and Collaborators

University of Sao Paulo

Investigators

Principal Investigator: Fernanda TM Braga, PhD, RN, University of Sao Paulo at College of Nursing

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

Fernanda Titareli Merizio Martins Braga, Principal Investigator, University of Sao Paulo

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT01614314

Other Study ID Numbers:

CVCdressing

First Posted:

Jun 7, 2012

Last Update Posted:

Jun 11, 2012

Last Verified:

Jun 1, 2012

Keywords provided by Fernanda Titareli Merizio Martins Braga, Principal Investigator, University of Sao Paulo

Preceptorship, simulation, nursing, catheters

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Jun 11, 2012