Behavioral DisorderNCT05048290
Communication Skills to Build a Diverse Biomedical Workforce
A study testing Communication Skills Training, Educational Intervention and Survey Administration in people with Behavioral Disorder, run by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Trial summary
This trial investigates how receiving instruction in communication skills affects short and long-term career outcomes for students, postdoctoral fellows, and future faculty. This may help researchers learn more about the factors that may help or block career goals and career persistence of trainees. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Behavioral Disorder
- What is being tested?
- Communication Skills Training, Educational Intervention and Survey Administration
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 0 participants
- Where
- No sites listed yet
- Study dates
- 19 May 2020to 30 Dec 2024
- 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 18 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- FOR SUMMER STUDENTS: Currently an undergraduate, medical student, or early Master's or Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) level student who is participating in a structured summer research program and receiving daily research supervision from a junior mentor (defined as a Master's or PhD level graduate student, a postdoctoral fellow, or an instructor) within a faculty member's research team
- FOR JUNIOR MENTORS: Currently a Master's or PhD student; postdoctoral trainee; or instructor working within a faculty member's research team and supervising a summer research student
Who cannot join
- FOR SUMMER STUDENTS: High school students
About this study
Official title: Building a Diverse Biomedical Workforce Through Communication Across Difference
This trial investigates how receiving instruction in communication skills affects short and long-term career outcomes for students, postdoctoral fellows, and future faculty. This may help researchers learn more about the factors that may help or block career goals and career persistence of trainees.
Read the detailed description
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
- Determine communication across difference (CAD) workshop effects over time using experimental and control dyads of summer students and their matched junior mentors.
Ia. Develop and deliver CAD skills workshops to dyads of students and junior mentors.
Ib. Test CAD workshop effects for individual participants with pre-, post-, and follow-up surveys of model variables over the course of the intervention.
II. Identify causal relationships of the social-influence variables with experimental and control groups of dyads over the 9-month course of the intervention.
IIa. Assess the psychological processes and causal relationships for students linking CAD to career intentions.
IIb. Assess the psychological processes and causal relationships for junior mentors linking CAD to career intentions and intentions to mentor diverse students in the future.
IIc. Assess the paired interaction effects between dyad members using pre-, post-, and follow-up model variables over the course of the intervention.
III. Assess long-term outcomes of the intervention and predictive utility of the student and mentor models by measuring changes in Hallmarks of Success: distal career persistence and network growth for students and junior mentors, as well as junior mentors' engagement in mentoring of diverse students.
OUTLINE: Dyads of summer students and their matched junior mentors are assigned to 1 of 2 groups.
GROUP I (EXPERIMENTAL): Participants complete 2 communication workshops about conversational skills and development of a video about the summer student's research experience over 3 hours each during the second week of the summer research experience and 2-3 weeks before the conclusion of summer experience. Participants also complete surveys over 15 minutes each about their communication, their engagement with research, mentoring experience, and current career intentions, before participating in the workshop, after the second workshop and at 6 months after the conclusion of the summer experience.
GROUP II (CONTROL): Participants complete 2 generic communication workshops about networking and presentation skills over 3 hours each during the second week of the summer experience and 2-3 weeks before the conclusion of summer experience. Participants also complete surveys over 15 minutes each about their communication, their engagement with research, mentoring experience, and current career intentions, before participating in the workshop, after the second workshop and at 6 months after the conclusion of the summer experience.
- Conditions
- Behavioral Disorder
- Being tested
- Communication Skills Training, Educational Intervention, Survey Administration
- Medical subject headings
- Mental Disorders
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Communication Skills TrainingOther
Participate in communication workshops
Communication Skills TrainingOther
Participate in generic communication skills workshops
Educational InterventionOther
Also called Education for Intervention, Intervention by Education, Intervention through Education, Intervention, Educational
Develop a video
Survey AdministrationOther
Complete surveys
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Group I (communication workshops, video, surveys) | Experimental | Participants complete 2 communication workshops about conversational skills and development of a video about the summer student's research experience over 3 hours each during the second week of the summer research experience and 2-3 weeks before the conclusion of summer experience. Participants also complete surveys over 15 minutes each about their communication, their engagement with research, mentoring experience, and current career intentions, before participating in the workshop, after the second workshop and at 6 months after the conclusion of the summer experience. Receives: Other: Communication Skills Training; Other: Educational Intervention; Other: Survey Administration |
| Group II (generic communication workshops, surveys) | Active comparator | Participants complete 2 generic communication workshops about networking and presentation skills over 3 hours each during the second week of the summer experience and 2-3 weeks before the conclusion of summer experience. Participants also complete surveys over 15 minutes each about their communication, their engagement with research, mentoring experience, and current career intentions, before participating in the workshop, after the second workshop and at 6 months after the conclusion of the summer experience. Receives: Other: Communication Skills Training; Other: Survey Administration |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Degree completion rates
Will be assessed in both summer students and junior mentors.
Measured: Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted17 Sep 2021
- Study start19 May 2020
- Primary completion30 Dec 2024
- Study completion30 Dec 2024
Why it stopped: PI Request
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Behavioral DisorderStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by M.D. Anderson Cancer CenterThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- 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
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Non-randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 0 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Carrie Cameron, Principal investigator, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05048290
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 2019-1010
- Other IDs
- NCI-2020-04436, 2019-1010
- Status last verified
- Jun 2025
- First submitted
- 8 Sep 2021
- Last updated
- 11 Jun 2025
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 11 Jun 2025. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Building a Diverse Biomedical Workforce Through Communication Across Difference
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05048290
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 2019-1010
- Conditions
- Behavioral Disorder
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- WithdrawnReason stopped: PI Request
- Enrolment
- 0 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- M.D. Anderson Cancer CenterUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Study start
- 19 May 2020 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 30 Dec 2024 (actual)
- Study completion
- 30 Dec 2024 (actual)
- First posted
- 17 Sep 2021 (actual)
- 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.
This trial investigates how receiving instruction in communication skills affects short and long-term career outcomes for students, postdoctoral fellows, and future faculty. This may help researchers learn more about the factors that may help or block career goals and career persistence of trainees.
Detailed description
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
- Determine communication across difference (CAD) workshop effects over time using experimental and control dyads of summer students and their matched junior mentors.
Ia. Develop and deliver CAD skills workshops to dyads of students and junior mentors.
Ib. Test CAD workshop effects for individual participants with pre-, post-, and follow-up surveys of model variables over the course of the intervention.
II. Identify causal relationships of the social-influence variables with experimental and control groups of dyads over the 9-month course of the intervention.
IIa. Assess the psychological processes and causal relationships for students linking CAD to career intentions.
IIb. Assess the psychological processes and causal relationships for junior mentors linking CAD to career intentions and intentions to mentor diverse students in the future.
IIc. Assess the paired interaction effects between dyad members using pre-, post-, and follow-up model variables over the course of the intervention.
III. Assess long-term outcomes of the intervention and predictive utility of the student and mentor models by measuring changes in Hallmarks of Success: distal career persistence and network growth for students and junior mentors, as well as junior mentors' engagement in mentoring of diverse students.
OUTLINE: Dyads of summer students and their matched junior mentors are assigned to 1 of 2 groups.
GROUP I (EXPERIMENTAL): Participants complete 2 communication workshops about conversational skills and development of a video about the summer student's research experience over 3 hours each during the second week of the summer research experience and 2-3 weeks before the conclusion of summer experience. Participants also complete surveys over 15 minutes each about their communication, their engagement with research, mentoring experience, and current career intentions, before participating in the workshop, after the second workshop and at 6 months after the conclusion of the summer experience.
GROUP II (CONTROL): Participants complete 2 generic communication workshops about networking and presentation skills over 3 hours each during the second week of the summer experience and 2-3 weeks before the conclusion of summer experience. Participants also complete surveys over 15 minutes each about their communication, their engagement with research, mentoring experience, and current career intentions, before participating in the workshop, after the second workshop and at 6 months after the conclusion of the summer experience.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Non-randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Group I (communication workshops, video, surveys) | Experimental | Other: Communication Skills Training, Other: Educational Intervention, Other: Survey AdministrationParticipants complete 2 communication workshops about conversational skills and development of a video about the summer student's research experience over 3 hours each during the second week of the summer research experience and 2-3 weeks before the conclusion of summer experience. Participants also complete surveys over 15 minutes each about their communication, their engagement with research, mentoring experience, and current career intentions, before participating in the workshop, after the second workshop and at 6 months after the conclusion of the summer experience. |
| Group II (generic communication workshops, surveys) | Active comparator | Other: Communication Skills Training, Other: Survey AdministrationParticipants complete 2 generic communication workshops about networking and presentation skills over 3 hours each during the second week of the summer experience and 2-3 weeks before the conclusion of summer experience. Participants also complete surveys over 15 minutes each about their communication, their engagement with research, mentoring experience, and current career intentions, before participating in the workshop, after the second workshop and at 6 months after the conclusion of the summer experience. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (2 listed)
- FOR SUMMER STUDENTS: Currently an undergraduate, medical student, or early Master's or Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) level student who is participating in a structured summer research program and receiving daily research supervision from a junior mentor (defined as a Master's or PhD level graduate student, a postdoctoral fellow, or an instructor) within a faculty member's research team
- FOR JUNIOR MENTORS: Currently a Master's or PhD student; postdoctoral trainee; or instructor working within a faculty member's research team and supervising a summer research student
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- FOR SUMMER STUDENTS: High school students
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Communication Skills TrainingParticipate in communication workshops | Other | Group I (communication workshops, video, surveys) |
| Communication Skills TrainingParticipate in generic communication skills workshops | Other | Group II (generic communication workshops, surveys) |
| Educational InterventionAlso: Education for Intervention, Intervention by Education, Intervention through Education, Intervention, EducationalDevelop a video | Other | Group I (communication workshops, video, surveys) |
| Survey AdministrationComplete surveys | Other | Group I (communication workshops, video, surveys), Group II (generic communication workshops, surveys) |
Primary outcome
Degree completion rates
Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Will be assessed in both summer students and junior mentors.
Results and safety
The study was withdrawn before enrolling participants, so there are no results.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 11 Jun 2025.
- M.D. Anderson Cancer CenterLink provided by the sponsor.
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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.
Carrie Cameron principal investigator
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Communication Skills Training, Educational Intervention and Survey Administration in people with Behavioral Disorder, run by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
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 2 inclusion and 1 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: withdrawn, as of the sponsor's last update on 11 Jun 2025. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
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 was withdrawn before enrolling participants, so there are no results.
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?
Degree completion rates (time frame: Through study completion, an average of 1 year). 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 11 Jun 2025.