ThinkingNCT02623530
Critical Thinking in Nursing Students
A study testing Educational intervention in people with Thinking, run by University of Sao Paulo at 1 site in Brazil.
Trial summary
Considering the need for an intervention in the context of the Brazilian nursing education, in order to develop the skills and dispositions for critical thinking (CT), this study aims to fill this gap through a first aid course, comparing a group control and an experimental group. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 17 to 50 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Thinking
- What is being tested?
- Educational intervention
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 102 participants
- Where
- 1 siteBrazil
- Study dates
- Oct 2015to Nov 2015
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 17 to 50 years
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child, Adult
Who may be able to join
- Undergraduate nursing students who are enrolled from first to third year;
- Undergraduate nursing students who agreed to participate in the study by signing the free and informed consent;
- Undergraduate nursing students residing in the Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Who cannot join
- Undergraduate nursing students who are not enrolled from first to third year;
- Undergraduate nursing students who does not agreed to participate in the study by signing the free and informed consent.
- Undergraduate nursing students who does not residing in the Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Official title: The Teaching of Critical Thinking for Nursing Students: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study
Considering the need for an intervention in the context of the Brazilian nursing education, in order to develop the skills and dispositions for critical thinking (CT), this study aims to fill this gap through a first aid course, comparing a group control and an experimental group. In this study will be used two tests, California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTID) to review arrangements for the CT, and California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) to evaluate CT skills, both marketed (Facione N, Facione PA, 2009 , 2011). Therefore, in order to facilitate the assimilation of PC skills during the course, we prepared the model of Active Teaching for Critical Thinking (MEAPC): characterized by a teaching method proposed by the author of this work, who understands the educational activity active and intentional as mobilizing higher mental processes fundamental to the development of the CT.
Read the detailed description
In Brazil there are few studies produced about Critical Thinking (CT), and the field of Brazilian nursing are unknown type of intervention research to assess / provisions initially measure and skills development / PC skills. Thus, the research question to be answered is: Students undergo an educational intervention focused on first aid care based on the Problem Based Learning (PBL) and guided by Active Teaching Model for Critical Thinking (MEAPC), have better results for PC skills and provisions compared to students learning the same content from PBL without MEAPC?
- STUDY OBJECTIVES
General Purpose:
Create, implement and evaluate an educational intervention for nursing students focusing on first aid, to develop skills and PC provisions, based on Problem Based Learning (PBL) and guided by Active Teaching Model for Critical Thinking (MEAPC) .
Specific Objectives:
- Create an educational intervention focusing on first aid, to develop skills and PC provisions, through the PBL, guided by MEAPC (experimental group) and with PBL and without MEAPC (control group);
- Apply the educational intervention focusing on first aid for the development of skills and PC provisions, through the PBL, guided by MEAPC (experimental group) and the PBL and without MEAPC (control group);
- Evaluate the experimental group and control (before and immediately after the intervention) PC skills and dispositions, respectively, through the test California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI) and California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST);
- Compare possible differences between the two groups of students (experiment and control) in relation to age and sex;
- Evaluate the effectiveness of MEAPC associated with PBL, comparing the performance of the experimental group and control;
- Assess the educational intervention through knowledge of students using tests ten true and false statements (T or F test) applied before and immediately after the intervention.
STUDY ASSUMPTIONS
This study will be developed based on five assumptions, explained below:
- Students who participate in the educational intervention focused on first aid care, based on the PBL-driven MEAPC will get better results in the test California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTID) and test California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST), which students attending the educational intervention aimed at answering first aid, based on the PBL, but not being guided by MEAPC;
- Older students (22 and older) will get better results in the tests California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTID) and California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) than younger students (under 22 years) in the experiment and control groups;
- There will be no significant differences regarding gender in relation to tests California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTID) and California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) compared the experimental and control groups;
- The evaluation of educational intervention through knowledge of students using true and false statements test (V or F) applied before and immediately after the intervention, developed quantitative improvement in results.
- Conditions
- Thinking
- Being tested
- Educational intervention
- Keywords
- Nursing, Nursing education research, Critical thinking, Decision Making
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Educational interventionOther
Control Group: An educational intervention focusing on first aid for the development of skills and dispositions of critical thinking. For this group will be taught the contents of first aid through the Methodology of PBL without the support MEAPC.
Experimental Group: An educational intervention focusing on first aid for the development of skills and dispositions of critical thinking. For this group will be taught the contents of first aid through Methodology PBL, supported by the MEAPC.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Control group | Active comparator | Control group: to implement educational intervention focusing on first aid for developing critical thinking (CT) skills and disposition, through the Problem Based Learning (PBL), not based on the Active Learning Model for Critical Thinking (MEAPC). Receives: Other: Educational intervention |
| Experimental group | Experimental | Experimental group: to implement educational intervention focusing on first aid for developing critical thinking (CT) skills and disposition, through the Problem Based Learning (PBL), based on the Active Learning Model for Critical Thinking (MEAPC). Receives: Other: Educational intervention |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST)
It is now considered the main test for measurement of critical thinking skills. The test is divided into ranges that represent the skills of critical thinking, analysis, evaluation, inference, deduction, induction and general reasoning skills. The test has 34 questions (about five questions to assess each critical thinking skill) with four possible answers listed from A to D. Students must choose only one answer that they consider relevant to the question asked. The test filling time takes around 50 minutes.
Measured: one year
California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTID)
Have your items divided into seven scales that represent attitudes of the critical thinker: seeking the truth, open mind, analyticity, systematic, self-confidence, curiosity and cognitive maturity. The test has 75 assertions (about 11 for each assertive attitude) from which students must indicate their level of agreement or disagreement on a Likert scale of six points. The test filling time takes around 15 to 20 minutes.
Measured: one year
Secondary outcomes (1)
Evaluation of educational intervention
The evaluation of educational intervention through knowledge of students using true and false statements test (V test or F).
Measured: one year
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted7 Dec 2015 (estimated)
- Study startOct 2015
- Primary completionOct 2015
- Study completionNov 2015
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for ThinkingStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Participant
- Enrolment
- 102 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Fábio da Costa Carbogim, University of Sao Paulo
- Investigators
- Vilanice F Püschel, Phd, Study director, University of Sao Paulo
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02623530
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 1.274.735
- Other IDs
- 45536215.9.0000.5392
- Status last verified
- Dec 2015
- First submitted
- 1 Dec 2015
- Last updated
- 8 Dec 2015
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- Individual data sharing
- Undecided: Data will be analyzed until June 2016, and subsequently arranged for publication.
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 8 Dec 2015. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- The Teaching of Critical Thinking for Nursing Students: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02623530
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 1.274.735
- Conditions
- Thinking
- Keywords
- Nursing, Nursing education research, Critical thinking, Decision Making
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 102 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- University of Sao PauloUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- Oct 2015
- Primary completion
- Oct 2015 (actual)
- Study completion
- Nov 2015 (actual)
- First posted
- 7 Dec 2015 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Considering the need for an intervention in the context of the Brazilian nursing education, in order to develop the skills and dispositions for critical thinking (CT), this study aims to fill this gap through a first aid course, comparing a group control and an experimental group. In this study will be used two tests, California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTID) to review arrangements for the CT, and California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) to evaluate CT skills, both marketed (Facione N, Facione PA, 2009 , 2011). Therefore, in order to facilitate the assimilation of PC skills during the course, we prepared the model of Active Teaching for Critical Thinking (MEAPC): characterized by a teaching method proposed by the author of this work, who understands the educational activity active and intentional as mobilizing higher mental processes fundamental to the development of the CT.
Detailed description
In Brazil there are few studies produced about Critical Thinking (CT), and the field of Brazilian nursing are unknown type of intervention research to assess / provisions initially measure and skills development / PC skills. Thus, the research question to be answered is: Students undergo an educational intervention focused on first aid care based on the Problem Based Learning (PBL) and guided by Active Teaching Model for Critical Thinking (MEAPC), have better results for PC skills and provisions compared to students learning the same content from PBL without MEAPC?
- STUDY OBJECTIVES
General Purpose:
Create, implement and evaluate an educational intervention for nursing students focusing on first aid, to develop skills and PC provisions, based on Problem Based Learning (PBL) and guided by Active Teaching Model for Critical Thinking (MEAPC) .
Specific Objectives:
- Create an educational intervention focusing on first aid, to develop skills and PC provisions, through the PBL, guided by MEAPC (experimental group) and with PBL and without MEAPC (control group);
- Apply the educational intervention focusing on first aid for the development of skills and PC provisions, through the PBL, guided by MEAPC (experimental group) and the PBL and without MEAPC (control group);
- Evaluate the experimental group and control (before and immediately after the intervention) PC skills and dispositions, respectively, through the test California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI) and California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST);
- Compare possible differences between the two groups of students (experiment and control) in relation to age and sex;
- Evaluate the effectiveness of MEAPC associated with PBL, comparing the performance of the experimental group and control;
- Assess the educational intervention through knowledge of students using tests ten true and false statements (T or F test) applied before and immediately after the intervention.
STUDY ASSUMPTIONS
This study will be developed based on five assumptions, explained below:
- Students who participate in the educational intervention focused on first aid care, based on the PBL-driven MEAPC will get better results in the test California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTID) and test California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST), which students attending the educational intervention aimed at answering first aid, based on the PBL, but not being guided by MEAPC;
- Older students (22 and older) will get better results in the tests California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTID) and California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) than younger students (under 22 years) in the experiment and control groups;
- There will be no significant differences regarding gender in relation to tests California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTID) and California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) compared the experimental and control groups;
- The evaluation of educational intervention through knowledge of students using true and false statements test (V or F) applied before and immediately after the intervention, developed quantitative improvement in results.
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind (participant)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Control group | Active comparator | Other: Educational interventionControl group: to implement educational intervention focusing on first aid for developing critical thinking (CT) skills and disposition, through the Problem Based Learning (PBL), not based on the Active Learning Model for Critical Thinking (MEAPC). |
| Experimental group | Experimental | Other: Educational interventionExperimental group: to implement educational intervention focusing on first aid for developing critical thinking (CT) skills and disposition, through the Problem Based Learning (PBL), based on the Active Learning Model for Critical Thinking (MEAPC). |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 17 to 50 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult
Key inclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Undergraduate nursing students who are enrolled from first to third year;
- Undergraduate nursing students who agreed to participate in the study by signing the free and informed consent;
- Undergraduate nursing students residing in the Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Key exclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Undergraduate nursing students who are not enrolled from first to third year;
- Undergraduate nursing students who does not agreed to participate in the study by signing the free and informed consent.
- Undergraduate nursing students who does not residing in the Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Educational interventionControl Group: An educational intervention focusing on first aid for the development of skills and dispositions of critical thinking. For this group will be taught the contents of first aid through the Methodology of PBL without the support MEAPC. Experimental Group: An educational intervention focusing on first aid for the development of skills and dispositions of critical thinking. For this group will be taught the contents of first aid through Methodology PBL, supported by the MEAPC. | Other | Control group, Experimental group |
Primary outcome
California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST)
Time frame: one year
It is now considered the main test for measurement of critical thinking skills. The test is divided into ranges that represent the skills of critical thinking, analysis, evaluation, inference, deduction, induction and general reasoning skills. The test has 34 questions (about five questions to assess each critical thinking skill) with four possible answers listed from A to D. Students must choose only one answer that they consider relevant to the question asked. The test filling time takes around 50 minutes.
California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTID)
Time frame: one year
Have your items divided into seven scales that represent attitudes of the critical thinker: seeking the truth, open mind, analyticity, systematic, self-confidence, curiosity and cognitive maturity. The test has 75 assertions (about 11 for each assertive attitude) from which students must indicate their level of agreement or disagreement on a Likert scale of six points. The test filling time takes around 15 to 20 minutes.
1 secondary outcome
Evaluation of educational intervention
Time frame: one year
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 8 Dec 2015.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Undecided. Data will be analyzed until June 2016, and subsequently arranged for publication.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Vilanice F Püschel, Phd study director
University of Sao Paulo
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Educational intervention in people with Thinking, run by University of Sao Paulo at 1 site in Brazil.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 8 Dec 2015. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Brazil. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) (time frame: one year). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 8 Dec 2015; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 28 Oct 2026.