Breaking Bad News - Optimizing Stress Response and Communication Performance in Medical Students

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

229

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 21, 2022

Primary Completion Date

February 29, 2024

Study Completion Date

February 29, 2024

Conditions
Stress Reaction
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Stress arousal reappraisal

Participants will watch a video explaining that stress arousal is not harmful but rather functional and adaptive for performance in stressful situations.

BEHAVIORAL

Worked examples

The worked example will be in form of brief video sequences showing a physician (played by an actor) delivering the bad diagnosis of lung cancer to an SP following the SPIKES protocol.

Trial Locations (1)

3012

Institute for Medical Education, Bern

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisante), University of Lausanne, Switzerland

OTHER

collaborator

University of Vienna

OTHER

lead

University of Bern

OTHER