Questionable Health Behaviors and Their Distal and Proximal Correlates

Completed

• Conditions: Questionable Health Behaviors and Their Distal and Proximal Correlates

• Registration Number: NCT05808660
• Lead Sponsor: University of Belgrade

Brief Summary

The goals of the study:

1. to investigate the frequency of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine use (TCAM) and intentional Non-adherence to medical recommendations (iNAR) in the general population in Serbia, as well as their mutual relations.

2. to examine the distribution of irrational beliefs in the general population;

3. to explore the relationships between TCAM and iNAR behaviors on the one hand and variables of personality, thinking styles and cognitive reflection on the other, with a major assumption that these relationships will be mediated by the domain of irrational beliefs and socio-political attitudes.

Participants will respond to a battery of instruments assessing TCAM use and iNAR, as well as, sociodemographics and health-related variables (such as health status, chronic diseases, BMI, etc.), distal psychological (i.e. personality, thinking disposition and styles) and proximal psychological, variables, (i.e. the irrational mindset, as well as socio-political beliefs and attitudes).

Data will be collected on the probabilistic household sample representative for the general population in Serbia (N=1043).

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2023-03-28
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-04-10
• Study First Posted: 2023-04-11
• Study Start: 2023-06-15
• Primary Completion: 2023-08-01
• Study Completion: 2023-08-01
• Status Verified: 2023-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-11-28
• Last Update Posted: 2023-12-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1043

Inclusion Criteria

• must be at least 18 years of age

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Exclusion Criteria

• the inability to understand the Serbian language
• failure to pass any of the four attention-check questions

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
intentional non-adherence to official medical recommendations (iNAR)	baseline	Prevalence of iNAR
Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) use	baseline	Prevalence of TCAM use

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Faculty of Philosophy; 🇷🇸 Belgrade, Serbia