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Effectiveness of a video-based intervention to improve the interpersonal communication skills on complementary feeding among Public Health Midwives, and client satisfaction in the district of Gampaha
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SLCTR Registration Number
SLCTR/2020/006
Date of Registration
The date of last modification
Sep 09, 2020
Scientific Title of Trial
Effectiveness of a video-based intervention to improve the interpersonal communication skills on complementary feeding among Public Health Midwives, and client satisfaction in the district of Gampaha
Public Title of Trial
A randomized control trial to assess the effectiveness of a video-based intervention to improve interpersonal communication skills on complementary feeding among Public Health Midwives, and client satisfaction in in selected MOH areas of the district of Gampaha District.
Disease or Health Condition(s) Studied
Community study on communication
Scientific Acronym
None
Public Acronym
None
Brief title
Interpersonal communication skills of Public Health Midwives
Universal Trial Number
U1111-1245-9089
Any other number(s) assigned to the trial and issuing authority
ERC number: P/230/09/2017
What is the research question being addressed?
Can a video-based intervention improve the interpersonal communication skills of Public Health Midwives?
Type of study
Interventional
Study design
Allocation
Randomized controlled trial
Masking
Single blinded : Outcome assessors
Control
Standard therapy/practice
Assignment
Parallel
Purpose
Health services research
Study Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention(s) planned
Study setting Medical officer of health (MOH) areas in Gampaha district, Sri Lanka.
Method of randomization A random cluster sampling method will be adopted with a MOH area defined as a cluster. 14 MOH areas out of 15 (excluding the Raagam MOH area) in Gampaha district will be grouped into seven pairs.the 14 MOH areas will be paired in a way that two MOH areas that are geographically far away would come in to a pair. Three pairs out of the seven pairs would be select randomly for the study. Out of the selected three pairs, the three MOH offices which are more towards to the South would be named as category A. The rest of the three MOH offices, which are more towards the North would be named as category B. MOH offices in category A and B would randomly select to control and intervention arm by tossing a coin.
Intervention package for Public Health Midwives (PHM) 1. Introduction to communication (30 min) 2. Video display on interpersonal communication (20 min) 3. Power point presentation on complementary feeding 4. Role-play by the study participants on interpersonal communication (1 hour) 5. Interactive discussion (30 min) These activates will be performed with in a half a day per MOH area one time.
Standard practice for the control group Control group would not be given any intervention. PHMs will undergo routine training which are conducted at the MOH office.
Inclusion criteria
Public Health Midwives who have been working for more than 6 months in the setting
Exclusion criteria
Public Health Midwives on leave and attached to any training program during the study period
Primary outcome(s)
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1.
Proportion of Public Health Midwives having “good inter-personal communication skills” rated by the Interpersonal communication skills assessment tool ( IPCST). |
[ Base line, Two weeks after the intervention and at 3 months following intervention. ] |
Secondary outcome(s)
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1.
Proportion of Public Health Midwives having “good inter-personal communication skills” assessed by a validated assessment tool. |
[ One month after the intervention ] |
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2.
Proportion of PHMs with "good knowledge" on complementary feeding assessed by a validated assessment tool. |
[ Two weeks after the intervention ] |
Target number/sample size
136 (68 in each arm)
Countries of recruitment
Sri Lanka
Anticipated start date
2020-02-10
Anticipated end date
2020-05-20
Date of first enrollment
Date of study completion
Recruitment status
Pending
Funding source
No
Regulatory approvals
not applicable
Status
Approved
Date of Approval
2019-11-13
Approval number
P/230/09/2017
Details of Ethics Review Committee
| Name: | Ethics Review Committee |
| Institutional Address: | Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama |
| Telephone: | 0112961267 |
| Email: | erckelaniya@gmail.com |
Contact person for Scientific Queries/Principal Investigator
S.A.S Prasanna
Registrar in Community Medicine
Health Promotion Bureau
No 2 Kynsey road,
Colombo 08
0112696142
0764222201
0112692613
samithaprasanna@ymail.com
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Contact Person for Public Queries
Prof Crishantha Abeysena
Professor
Department Community Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of Kelaniya
0710822848
0777591715
0112692613
chrishanthaabeysena@yahoo.com
no
Do the investigators plan to share identified individual clinical trial participant-level data (IPD)?
No
IPD sharing plan description
Study protocol available
No
Protocol version and date
Not Available
Protocol URL
Not Available
Results summary available
No
Date of posting results
Date of study completion
Final sample size
Date of first publication
Link to results
Brief summary of results
