Effects of Parent-Doctor Communication Training for paediatric doctors: a randomised controlled trial

ISRCTN	ISRCTN87527154
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN87527154
Secondary identifying numbers	D 100011720; AZ32-402.17(05)/34

Submission date: 12/01/2006
Registration date: 02/03/2006
Last edited: 14/07/2008

Recruitment status: No longer recruiting
Overall study status: Completed
Condition category: Other

Prospectively registered

Protocol

Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

Record updated in last year

Plain English summary of protocol

Not provided at time of registration

Contact information

Mr Christoph Nikendei
Scientific

Medizinische Klinik
Abt. Innere II
Im Neuenheimer Feld 410
Heidelberg
69120
Germany

Phone	+49 (0)62 2156 38663
Email	christoph.nikendei@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Study information

Study design	Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design	Interventional
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)	Not specified
Study type	Other
Scientific title
Study acronym	PDCT
Study objectives	1. Parents satisfaction with their childrens treatment by a paediatric doctor is higher if the doctors have participated in a communication training (in comparison to treatment by the doctors who have not yet participated in a communication training) 2. Paediatric doctors who participate in a communication training show higher subjective self-efficacy than the doctors who have not yet participated in a communication training 3. Paediatric doctors who have participated in a communication training score higher in a multi-station exercise (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) (OSCE) than the doctors who have not yet participated in a communication training
Ethics approval(s)	Approved by the Ethical Committee of the Medical Department of Heidelberg (Ethikkommission der Medizinischen Fakultät Heidelberg) on 05/09/2005, reference number: 307/2005
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Communication abilities
Intervention	Paediatric doctors are matched in pairs of two and randomised to an intervention and control group. The intervention group participates in a communication training of four 2-hour sessions. Both groups take part in a multi-station exercise after the training. In addition there is a survey of parents' satisfaction with their children's treatment in the emergency outpatient department three months before and three months after the training. Doctors' self-efficacy in both groups is assessed by a questionnaire before and after the training. Once the surveys are completed the control group will participate in the communication training.
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure	1. Multi-station exercise (OSCE, a practical exam): higher scores for those doctors who participated in the communication training 2. Improved parents satisfaction with their childrens treatment if the doctors have participated in the communication training (questionnaire) 3. Self-efficacy: doctors who have participated in the communication training show higher self-efficacy than those who have not yet participated (questionnaire)
Secondary outcome measures	Not provided at time of registration
Overall study start date	01/11/2005
Completion date	30/06/2006

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Adult
Sex	Both
Target number of participants	Minimum 300 parents, 33 paediatric doctors
Key inclusion criteria	Paediatric doctors: those who work in the emergency outpatient department between 4.30 and 10 pm and who are willing to participate Parents: those who visit the emergency outpatient department between 4.30 and 10 pm and who are willing to participate
Key exclusion criteria	Paediatric doctors: leading position Parents: those who do not understand and speak German sufficiently
Date of first enrolment	01/11/2005
Date of final enrolment	30/06/2006

Locations

Countries of recruitment

Germany

Study participating centre

Medizinische Klinik

Heidelberg
69120
Germany

Sponsor information

Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts, Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
Government

Königstrasse 46
Stuttgart
70173
Germany

Website	http://www.mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de/
"ROR"	https://ror.org/01hc18p32

Funders

Funder type

Government

Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts, Baden Württemberg (Germany), D 100011720; AZ32-402.17(05)/34

No information available

Results and Publications

Intention to publish date
Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
Publication and dissemination plan	Not provided at time of registration
IPD sharing plan