The therapeutic effects of physicians’ communication style on patients’ outcomes.
Completed
- Conditions
- This study does not relate to a specific health condition. The subject of the simulation is menstrual pain, but the research relates to the methodology. To assess the effect of different types of communication, healthy women acting as analogue patients are included and randomly assiged to one of the four scripted video-taped consultations.
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON23778
- Lead Sponsor
- Prof. dr. J.M. BensingPO Box 1568, 3500 BN Utrecht, The Netherlands. E: j.bensing@nivel.nlT: +31 30 2729666
- Brief Summary
/A
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 320
Inclusion Criteria
1. Being a women between 18-45 years with sufficient command of Dutch language;
2. Experience with period pain (at least once in the last six months).
Exclusion Criteria
1. Not in the range between 18-45 years;
2. Inability to have an unaided Dutch conversation;
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The study's primary parameters are affective, physiological (phase I only) and cognitive responses measured as state anxiety, and outcome expectations about the simulated illness in the interview. The study endpoint is the concordance of these measures between 1) subjects participating in the interview and subjects re-viewing their own interview and 2) between subjects participating in an interview and other participants (not participating in any interview) viewing interviews of others.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Secondary study parameters are heart rate, positive and negative affect and illness perceptions about the simulated<br>illness in the interview. Demographic variables, health status, trust in healthcare, communication preferences and<br>empathic ability will be measured as control variables.