Clinical trialNCT01304030CompletedInterventional

Improving Empathy and Relational Skills

SponsorMassachusetts General HospitalEnrollment99Empathy

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Summary

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Our research hypothesis is that residents who participate in the empathy and relational skills training modules will significantly improve in these skills as compared to a control group of residents who receive residency training as usual that includes the current standard training in the doctor-patient relationship. To evaluate this hypothesis, we will use a two-pronged approach to assessment. The first prong is the residents' self assessment of empathy and the second is from the patients' perspective.

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Investigators

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Helen Riess, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 28 Feb 2010
Primary completion: 31 Dec 2010
Completion: 31 Dec 2010
Last update posted: 25 Feb 2011
Registered enrollment: 99
Registry id: NCT01304030

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