{
  "abstract": "Introduction Communication is a professional competence that all paediatric healthcare professionals must learn and maintain to provide age and developmentally appropriate care. Child-centred communication encourages direct communication with children and adolescents, incorporating the use of play as a communicative strategy. Still, many paediatric healthcare professionals receive little or no formal training in communication and play. A critical barrier to communication training is the limited possibilities for healthcare professionals to take time from their clinical duties. Moreover, few randomised controlled trials have evaluated educational programmes on communication and play for paediatric healthcare professionals, and existing programmes vary significantly in design and duration. This study aims to compare the effects of a 45-min and a 3-hour educational intervention for healthcare professionals on age-appropriate communication and the use of play in clinical paediatric practice.Methods and analysis We will describe a single-centre, randomised, controlled, two-arm, non-inferiority trial. We will recruit 150 healthcare professionals with different professional backgrounds who will be randomised to one of two arms: a 45-min or 3-hour educational intervention on communication and play in paediatric clinical practice. The primary outcome will be their self-efficacy in patient-centredness at 12-week post-intervention, while secondary outcomes will be self-efficacy immediately after the intervention, motivation to engage in the educational activity, cognitive load, self-evaluated knowledge, satisfaction and the impact on individual practice and training needs. Data will be collected through questionnaires at baseline, immediately after the intervention, and 12 weeks post-intervention and will be analysed using linear mixed models with random effects to account for clustering and within-subject correlation.Ethics and dissemination The Danish Data Protection Agency approved the study (P-2020–1144), which will be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Findings will be published in a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal and presented at international conferences.Trial registration number NCT06859632 (ClinicalTrials.gov).",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Mary Elizabeths Hospital and Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark"
      ],
      "name": "Jakob Thestrup"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Mary Elizabeths Hospital and Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark",
        "University of Copenhagen Department of Clinical Medicine, Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark"
      ],
      "name": "Jette Led Sørensen"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Psychological Aspects of Cancer, Cancer Survivorship, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark",
        "University of Copenhagen Department of Psychology, Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark"
      ],
      "name": "Pernille Envold Bidstrup"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Statistics and Data Analysis, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark"
      ],
      "name": "Susanne Rosthøj"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Mary Elizabeths Hospital and Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark"
      ],
      "name": "Jane Hybschmann"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for Human Resources and Education, Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation, Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark"
      ],
      "name": "Barbara Hoff Esbjørn"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Mary Elizabeths Hospital and Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark"
      ],
      "name": "Daniel Dybdal"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Mary Elizabeths Hospital and Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark"
      ],
      "name": "Karen Barslund"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Educational Unit, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark"
      ],
      "name": "Martha Krogh Topperzer"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Mary Elizabeths Hospital and Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark"
      ],
      "name": "Thomas Leth Frandsen"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Mary Elizabeths Hospital and Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark"
      ],
      "name": "Line Klingen Gjærde"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Effect on healthcare professionals’ self-efficacy of a 45-min versus 3-hour educational intervention on communication and play in paediatric clinical practice in Denmark: a randomised controlled trial study protocol",
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}