Evaluation of Two Strategies for Debriefing in the Development of Skills for Neonatal Resuscitation

Introduction: Training of health professionals in neonatal resuscitation reduces risks and adverse events during this intervention. Simulation-based education with constructive immediate feedback (debriefing) is an effective teaching method for personnel in charge of neonatal resuscitation.

Objective: To evaluate two debriefing strategies for the development of neonatal resuscitation skills in professionals specialized in critical newborn care.

Materials and Methods: A simple blind randomized clinical trial was conducted. Twenty-four professionals (pediatricians, nurses, and respiratory therapists) were randomly assigned for two interventions; one group received oral debriefing and the other oral debriefing assisted by video. Three standardized clinical scenarios that were recorded on video were executed. A checklist was applied for the evaluation, administered by a reviewer blinded to the assignment of the type of debriefing.

Null hypothesis: The improved in the skills of neonatal resuscitation is the same for both strategies of debriefing.

Alternative hypothesis: The improved in the skills of neonatal resuscitation is different for both strategies of debriefing

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Key information

Conditions

Asphyxia Neonatorum Birth Injuries Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities Infant, Newborn, Diseases Wounds and Injuries

Age range

18 year–65 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

The specialized health professionals (Professional nurses, respiratory therapists, and pediatricians) in charge of newborn care that working in the Neonatal Unit areas, maternity wards, surgery rooms responsible for the care of caesarean sections, and those of pediatric emergencies of University Hospital of La Sabana

Exclusion criteria

None

Treatment and study plan

Structured debriefing assisted by video

Other

In the structured debriefing assisted by video, the process was based on the immediate review of the video, stopping and rewinding the recording as required. The debriefing session was conducted in the debriefing room of the simulation laboratory with an assigned time of 15 minutes. Each session was developed in three phases. The first phase, descriptive, in which each participant was encouraged to recount what they had lived and experienced, clarifying how the events unfolded, verifying the appropriate decisions and the errors committed in the scenario and the ways they could have solved them and corrected them. The second phase, analytical, the participant reflected on what occurred in the scenario, commenting on how their feelings were involved in the development of the case. The third phase, application or transference, in which the group was encouraged to draw conclusions from what had occurred, realizing an application of this experience in a real-life.

Structured oral debriefing

Other

In the structured oral debriefing, the process was based by the mental search of their memories of what occurred. The debriefing session was conducted in the debriefing room of the simulation laboratory with an assigned time of 15 minutes. Each session was developed in three phases. The first phase, descriptive, in which each participant was encouraged to recount what they had lived and experienced, clarifying how the events unfolded, verifying the appropriate decisions and the errors committed in the scenario and the ways they could have solved them and corrected them. The second phase, analytical, the participant reflected on what occurred in the scenario, commenting on how their feelings were involved in the development of the case. The third phase, application or transference, in which the group was encouraged to draw conclusions from what had occurred, realizing an application of this experience in a real-life.

Primary outcomes

Compliance percentage of the activities

Time frame: The checklist was applied by a reviewer blinded to the assignment of the type of debriefing by reviewing the video, on average 1 week after of the participation of the groups in the scenarios.

For the performance and evaluation score of the adherence of the teams to the resuscitation protocols, a review of the literature was performed for constructed a checklist that included cognitive/technical and behavioral aspects of individual performance and performance by profession in each of the scenarios. Each item of the tool was assigned a score of 1 if the evaluated activity was correctly performed, 0 if it was not performed correctly, and N/A if it did not apply for the scenario and/or for the profession. A compliance percentage (range 0% to 100%) of the activities evaluated by participant in the tool was obtained, summed the points obtained onto the possible total score. The higher percentage indicate better outcome.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Universidad de la Sabana

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Registry information

Official study title

Evaluation of Two Strategies for Constructive Immediate Feedback in the Development of Skills for Neonatal Resuscitation: a Randomized Clinical Trial

Important dates

Study start: 2016
Primary completion: 2016
Study completion: 2017
First posted: Jul 30, 2018
Registry last updated: Jul 30, 2018

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