The Influence of Doctor-patient Communication on Patients' Willingness to Take Medication
- Conditions
- Healthy
- Registration Number
- NCT03046940
- Lead Sponsor
- Philipps University Marburg Medical Center
- Brief Summary
The experiment aims at investigating whether the doctor-patient communication has an influence on patients' willingness to take medication. Patients' attitude towards the medication is manipulated via a critical film sequence. Afterwards patients of the two experimental groups have a communication with one of the investigators of the study. Patients are told that the investigator is a medical doctor. The "doctors" either communicate in a patient-centered or doctor-centered style with the patient. Patients in the control group do not have the possibility to talk to a "medical doctor". Afterwards patients are offered the aforementioned pill that is supposed to be a cognitive enhancer (actually placebo pill). Pill intake is voluntary. The investigators hypothesize that patients in the experimental group with the patient-centered style of communication are more likely to take the pill than patients in the experimental group with the doctor-centered style of communication or patients in the control group.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 120
- female
- between 18 and 35 years
- healthy
- adequate ability to see
- fluent in German (reading and writing)
- regular intake of cognitive enhancers/medication that enhances concentration
- intake of psychotropic drugs
- medical or pharmacy students, advanced psychology students
- participants who know the investigators
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pill intake Within 10 minutes after doctor-patient communication Behavioural test
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Willingness to take medication (VAS) Within 10 minutes prior to watching the film sequence, directly (within 5 minutes) after the film sequence, directly (within 10 minutes) after doctor-patient communication Visual analogue scale (VAS)
Critical attitude towards the medication (VAS) Within 10 minutes prior to watching the film sequence, directly (within 5 minutes) after the film sequence, directly (within 10 minutes) after doctor-patient communication Visual analogue scale (VAS)
Influence on concentration (Concentration task) Directly (within 10 minutes) after the pill was offered Concentration task
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg
🇩🇪Marburg, Germany
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg🇩🇪Marburg, Germany