NCT03248245

Improving Interprofessional Collaboration in Norwegian Primary Schools

Completed NA Last updated 7 September 2020

What this trial tests

NA trial testing LOG-model in Interprofessional Team Collaboration in 4,130 participants. Completed in 30 June 2020.

Timeline

1 April 2017

Primary endpoint
30 June 2020

30 June 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Oslo Metropolitan University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	single group
Masking	single
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	4,130
Start date	1 April 2017
Primary completion	30 June 2020
Estimated completion	30 June 2020
Sites	37 locations across Norway

Drugs / interventions tested

• LOG-model
• TAU — full drug profile →

Conditions studied

• Interprofessional Team Collaboration — all drugs for Interprofessional Team Collaboration →

Sponsor

Oslo Metropolitan University

Who can join

Adults 10 to 14, any sex, with Interprofessional Team Collaboration. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

This study includes designing, implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of process-based measures for improving interprofessional collaboration in Norwegian primary schools (5-7th grades). Focusing on leadership and organizational development, the overarching aim is to improve the use of existing interprofessional competence within schools. The interventions include meetings at municipal-level (strategic), school-level (operative) and class-level (operative), with feedback procedures to ensure communication between and within all levels. Also school internal and school external collaborators are involved at all levels of intervention.

In order to avoid contradictory roles, an implementation team is responsible for developing and implementing the intervention, while the research team conduct an independent evaluation. The model will be evaluated by a cluster-randomized design to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention. The hypothesis is that schools that utilize the process-based intervention (intervention group) will improve their interprofessional team work in a way that enhances the pupil's learning- environment and teachers professional competence, self-efficacy and efficient use of working hours compared to their counterparts in the control group. We anticipate main effects to be found at pupil level, mainly through improved early assessment, intervention and efficient follow-up. The project is a collaboration between four Norwegian municipalities and includes a total of 37 Schools, half of which will be randomized to experimental condition and half to control condition.

The project is financed by The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training with a duration of three years and three months. The project is led by Professor Ira Malmberg-Heimonen. The project is a collaboration between Faculty of Social Sciences and the Work Research Institute (AFI), at Oslo and Akerhus University College of Applied Sciences. Participants in the project are Ira Malmberg-Heimonen (project leader), Anne Grete Tøge, Therese Saltkjel, Knut Fossestøl, Elin Borg and Selma Therese Lyng. Participants in the implementation team are Øyvind Pålshaugen, Hanne Christoffersen and Christian Wittrock, also from Oslo and Akerhus University College of Applied Sciences, in addition to Torbjørn Lund from the Arctic University of Norway

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.