Does Gender Matter? Patient Preference in an Italian Osteopathic Clinical Setting

Completed

• Conditions: Gender Role
• Interventions: Other: Gender Questionnaire

• Registration Number: NCT03546114
• Lead Sponsor: Istituto Superiore di Osteopatia di Milano

Brief Summary

This study evaluates patients preference for the gender of their osteopath. All patients referring to an Italian private osteopathic clinic will receive a proper questionnaire before knowing the gender of their designed osteopath.

Detailed Description

Several previous studies have shown that clinical contextual factors, such as patients preferences, play an important role in the patient-physical relationship, with resulting consequences on clinical outcomes.

The interaction between the gender of both patient and physician is often impacted by existing stereotypes.

Patient preference for specific physician gender has been investigated in scientific literature.

However the are no studies that analyzed the role of gender in osteopathic medicine.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-04-01
• Study First Submitted: 2018-05-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-06-04
• Study First Posted: 2018-06-06
• Primary Completion: 2019-02-01
• Study Completion: 2019-02-15
• Status Verified: 2019-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-08-07
• Last Update Posted: 2019-08-09

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 105

Inclusion Criteria

first visit at the osteopathic clinic (Centro di Medicina Osteopatica) Milan

Exclusion Criteria

non-Italian speaking

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Patients referring to an osteopathic clinic - CMO, Milan	Gender Questionnaire	Adults, age\>18 years, first visit at osteopathic clinic (Centro di Medicina Osteopatica)

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Gender questionnaire (Self-reported 13-items questionnaire)	1 day	* Patient's gender?; * Patient's age?; * Educational level? (middle school, high school, BSc, MSc, PhD); * Naive to osteopathic treatment? (yes/no); * Only if the answer of question 5 is yes, which was the osteopath's gender at your first osteopathic consultation?; * Which would be your favorite osteopath's gender?; * Which would be your favorite osteopath's gender if you had low back pain?; * Which would be your favorite osteopath's gender if you had neck pain?; * Which would be your favorite osteopath's gender if you had gastrointestinal disorders?; * Which would be your favorite osteopath's gender if you had upper limb pain?; * Which would be your favorite osteopath's gender if you had lower limb pain?; * Which would be your favorite osteopath's gender if you had headache?; * Which would be your favorite osteopath's gender if you had urogenital disorders? Questions 7-13: Choose among: female, male, no preference

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Istituto Superiore di Osteopatia; 🇮🇹 Milan, MI, Italy