Fig. 3From: From threat to challenge—Improving medical students’ stress response and communication skills performance through the combination of stress arousal reappraisal and preparatory worked example-based learning when breaking bad news to simulated patients: study protocol for a randomized controlled trialIllustration of the learning moduleNote: A general “Introduction of the BBN module” and “The six-step SPIKES framework” will be provided to participants of all groups. The worked example (“Demonstration”) and stress arousal reappraisal (“Optimizing stress arousal”) interventions will only be presented in the respective groupsBack to article page