The Psychosocial Effect of Thoughts of Personal Mortality on Cardiac Risk Assessment by Medical Students

University of Missouri-Columbia49 enrolled

Overview

This study was designed to examine if provoking thoughts of mortality among medical students can influence cardiac risk assessments depending on the religion of the target patient.

This study was designed to examine whether and how provoking thoughts of mortality among medical students can influence cardiac risk assessments depending on the religion of the target patient.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Prejudice

Interventions

mortality saliencePROCEDURE

Eligibility

Sex: ALLHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * medical students Exclusion Criteria: * non-medical students

Locations (1)

University of Missouri

Columbia, Missouri, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Responses on a scale of 0-100 to each of three cardiac risk questions

Time frame: immediate

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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