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NCT07084077
Investigating the Effects of a Short Narratology Education Module on Empathy and Patient-centred Communication in Early-stage Medical Students.
trial testing Narratology education module in Empathy in 22 participants. Completed in 10 July 2025.
30 April 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown |
|---|---|
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | OBSERVATIONAL |
| Enrollment | 22 |
| Start date | 2 April 2025 |
| Primary completion | 30 April 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 10 July 2025 |
| Sites | 1 location across Ireland |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Narratology education module
Conditions studied
- Empathy — all drugs for Empathy →
- Patient-centredness — all drugs for Patient-centredness →
- Narrative Medicine — all drugs for Narrative Medicine →
Sponsor
Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Empathy or Patient-centredness. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
Effective communication is a fundamental skill in clinical medicine; however, traditional approaches often fail to equip learners with an ability to authentically and empathically engage with the complexities of real patients' experiences. Narratology education has been proposed as a pedagogical framework for augmenting empathy and patient-centred communication in medical students. In April 2025, we undertook a mixed-methods pilot study to evaluate the impact of a one-week narratology education module on second-year undergraduate medical students at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Dublin. The module involved close reading, group viewings, facilitated small-group workshops, and whole-group discussions in response to narrative works by Irish writers and storytellers, followed by written personal reflections. At the outset and conclusion of the module, each student undertook a clinical history with a simulated patient (SP) portraying early-stage dementia. SPs assessed each student's empathy and communication using the CARE Measure.
Publications & conference data
1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Investigating the effects of a short narratology module on empathy and patient-centred communication in early-stage medical students: an empirical mixed-methods pilot study.
Alhaidari B, Mulhall C, Condron C, Shpigelman J, et al · · 2025 · PMID 41331818 · DOI 10.1186/s12909-025-08264-7
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT07084077 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown
- Last refreshed: 7 August 2025
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