Breaking Bad News Skills of Doctors and Residents in the Surgical Setting
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Breaking bad news skills.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Communication Research, Patient Satisfaction, Communication Programs, Doctor Patient Relation. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Spain
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Breaking Bad News Skills of Doctors and Residents in Anesthesia and Surgical Specialties in Spain: a Cross-sectional Survey
Overview
Breaking bad news is a very stressful and difficult situation for health care professionals, especially clinical doctors and surgeons. Acquiring skills for this sort of communication is very important due to the large volume of times that these professionals will have to deal with it and because it can affect the doctor-patient relationship forever. The objective of this study is to evaluate the skill of surgeons and residents in surgical specialties in breaking bad news to patients and families across Spanish hospitals. This will be done by analyzing the subjects in terms of their knowledge and experience using a specialized questionnaire based on breaking bad news protocol, designed in the "Hospital Sant Joan de Déu" Children's hospital in Barcelona.
Interventions
- Other Breaking bad news skills
Communication skills analyzed by a specialized questionnaire designed from a Breaking bad news protocol developed in 2018-2019 in Barcelona.
Primary outcome measures
- Number of times having to communicate a bad new in the last year. [Time frame: Two months]
- Number of hours in training in communication and breaking bad news skills. [Time frame: Two months]
- Self-evaluation of the skills in breaking bad news and their self-perceived quality. [Time frame: Two months]
- Knowledge of Second victim concept [Time frame: Two months]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Where have the professionals acquired their skills in breaking bad news if they have not taken a training program? [Time frame: Two months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
\- Doctors working in the Surgical Setting that accept and answer the specialized questionnaire.
Exclusion criteria
- Questionnaire answered out of the time-frame
- Incomplete questionnaires
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Other
Study locations
Spain · 1 center
- Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Hospital Uiversitari Mútua de Terrassa — Barcelona
Identifiers
NCT: NCT04308707 · BBNS-SS