Overview
Providing evidence-based, well-designed psychotherapy teaching to train them to get a basic understanding of psychotherapy and to gain required skills for clinical practice would be fundamental to medical students, residency. This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of multimodal psychotherapy training program for medical students in China.
Description
Background and aims: Providing evidence-based, well-designed psychotherapy teaching for medical students and residents is urgently needed. The aim of this project is to measure the effectiveness of a newly multimodal psychotherapy teaching program for medical students and residents in China.
Design: This study will be a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT). The intervention group will receive a two-day multimodal-based intensive educational intervention with 8 weeks follow-up (supervision based online teaching). The wait-list control group will not receive the intervention until the end of the study. Both groups will be followed up to 8 weeks.
Setting: This trial will be conduct at the Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital.
Participants: This study aims to recruit about 160 medical students and residents, with approximately 80 in each group.
Measurements: The primary outcome measure is the changes of the Facilitative Interpersonal Skills task (FIS) scores. Secondary outcome measures include: training program acceptability; trainees' psychotherapy knowledge; utilization of psychotherapy; and self-reported self-efficacy and self-reported motivation for psychotherapy.
Comments: If this CBT-based brief and short-term psychotherapy skill training program is proven effective, the mental health impact of its expansion nation-wide could be enormous.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Medical student, residents, health care providers
- 18 years of age or older
- Expressing an interest in psychotherapy
- Willingness to received randomization
- Willing to provide informed consent to participate in the study
Exclusion Criteria:
- Not health care providers
- Below 18 years old
- Unwilling to be randomized
- Unable to provide informed consent