Does Gender Matter? Patient Preference in an Italian Osteopathic Clinical Setting
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 105
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Gender questionnaire (Self-reported 13-items questionnaire)
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Other
- 时间视角
- Cross Sectional
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •first visit at the osteopathic clinic (Centro di Medicina Osteopatica) Milan
排除标准
- •non-Italian speaking
结局指标
主要结局
Gender questionnaire (Self-reported 13-items questionnaire)
时间窗: 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
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Viviana Pisa
PhD
Istituto Superiore di Osteopatia di Milano