E-Counseling in psychosocial cancer care: A competency-based E-Learning approach

描述(申请人提供)：高达%的癌症患者有未得到满足的心理社会需求。电子咨询被定义为利用互联网提供心理社会干预，为有需要的患者提供以临床有效、成本效益高和方便的方式接受心理社会癌症护理的能力。电子咨询克服了更多传统面对面咨询方法的障碍，增加了提供者的覆盖面。不幸的是，很少有心理社会癌症护理人员接受过电子咨询技能的培训。我们最近对心理社会癌症护理提供者的需求评估(N=104)表明，目前只有4%的提供者为癌症患者和幸存者提供电子咨询，12%的提供者认为他们已经接受了如何进行电子咨询的足够培训，93%的提供者表示他们会对电子咨询在线培训感兴趣。为了弥补专业培训方面的差距并回应提供者的兴趣，该提案的目的是：1)为心理社会癌症护理提供者开发和实施电子咨询在线培训计划(癌症电子咨询课程：ECCC)；2)评估ECCC对癌症电子咨询实习生能力的影响；3)评估ECCC对临床实践行为的影响；以及4)确定预测采用电子咨询的实习生特征。该项目以两种理论方法为指导。ECCC的培训部分以基础能力方法为指导。特别是，培训将侧重于发展以下技能：癌症电子咨询的经验做法、癌症电子咨询的合法合规、癌症电子咨询的道德行为、癌症电子咨询的治疗关系发展以及对文化敏感的癌症电子咨询。ECCC的教职员工都是电子咨询基本能力方面的专家。ECCC的评估部分以柯克帕特里克评估模型为指导，将重点放在三个层面的评估：反应(满意度)、学习(能力基准的实现)和转移(将电子咨询应用到临床实践中)。全国范围内有执照的心理社会癌症护理提供者(N=820人，包括心理学家、护士、社会工作者和精神病学家)将通过专业名单服务机构招聘。招生工作将如火如荼进行。一旦被录取，他们将参加ECCC，一个五个模块的多媒体E-Learning计划。受训人员将作为每个单元的一部分，在ECCC完成后的三个月和六个月进行评估。总而言之，尽管E-Consulseling在心理社会癌症护理方面有着巨大的前景，但很少有心理社会癌症护理提供者接受过培训来提供这种服务。从本质上讲，对电子咨询的需求很大，但电子咨询提供者的供应有限。因此，R25E旨在培训心理社会癌症护理提供者如何提供高质量、有能力的电子咨询，这些咨询基于经验，符合法律，符合道德规范，具有同理心和文化敏感性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Up to 89% of cancer patients have unmet psychosocial needs. E-Counseling, defined as the use of the Internet to deliver psychosocial interventions, offers patients in need the ability to receive psychosocial cancer care in a clinically efficacious, cost-effective, and convenient manner. E-Counseling overcomes barriers which stand in the way of more traditional face-to-face counseling methods, and increases provider reach. Unfortunately, few psychosocial cancer care providers are trained in E-Counseling skills. Our recent needs assessment of psychosocial cancer care providers (N=104) indicated that only 4% of providers currently practice E-Counseling with cancer patients and survivors, 12% felt they had sufficient training in how to conduct E-Counseling, and 93% stated they would be interested in E-Counseling online training. To remedy this gap in professional training and respond to provider interest, the aims of the proposal are to: 1) Develop and implement an online training program in E-Counseling for psychosocial cancer care providers (E-Counseling for Cancer Course: ECCC); 2) Evaluate the effects of ECCC on trainee competency in E-Counseling for cancer; 3) Evaluate the effects of ECCC on clinical practice behavior; and, 4) Identify trainee characteristics which predict adoption of E-Counseling. The project is guided by two theoretical approaches. The training component of ECCC is guided by a Foundational Competency Approach. In particular, training will focus on developing the following skills: Empirically-based practice of E-Counseling for cancer, Legal compliance in E-Counseling for cancer, Ethical conduct in E-Counseling for cancer, Therapeutic relationship development in E-Counseling for cancer, and Culturally sensitive E-Counseling for cancer. ECCC faculty members are experts in each of the E-Counseling foundational competencies. The evaluation component of ECCC is guided by the Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model, and will focus on three levels of evaluation: Reactions (satisfaction), Learning (achievement of competency benchmarks), and Transfer (adoption of E-Counseling into clinical practice). Licensed psychosocial cancer care providers (N=820; including psychologists, nurses, social workers, and psychiatrists) from across the country will be recruited via professional listservs. Admissions will be rolling. Once accepted, they will participate in ECCC, a five module, multimedia, E-Learning program. Trainees will be evaluated as part of each module and at three and six months following ECCC completion. In summary, despite E-Counseling's tremendous promise for psychosocial cancer care, few psychosocial cancer care providers are trained to deliver it. Essentially, there is high demand for E-Counseling, but limited supply of E-Counseling providers. Therefore, this R25E is designed to train psychosocial cancer care providers in how to provide high quality, competent E-Counseling that is empirically based, legally compliant, ethically sound, empathic, and culturally sensitive.