The Influence of Doctor-patient Communication on Patients' Willingness to Take Medication

NCT03046940 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2016-37v-r
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 120
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

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.

Conditions

Healthy

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Pill intake

  Behavioural test

  Within 10 minutes after doctor-patient communication

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• 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

• 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

• Influence on concentration (Concentration task)

  Directly (within 10 minutes) after the pill was offered

Study Arms (3)

Control group

NO INTERVENTION

No communication with a doctor

Patient-centered

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants communicate with a doctor that uses a patient-centered style of communication

Other: Patient-centered style of communication

Doctor-centered

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants communicate with a doctor that uses a doctor-centered style of communication

Other: Doctor-centered style of communication

Interventions

Patient-centered style of communication OTHER

Different doctor-patient communication

Patient-centered

Doctor-centered style of communication OTHER

Different doctor-patient communication

Doctor-centered

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 35 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• female
• between 18 and 35 years
• healthy
• adequate ability to see
• fluent in German (reading and writing)

You may not qualify if:

• 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

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Philipps University Marburg: lead

Study Sites (1)

Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg

Marburg, 35032, Germany

Location

Study Officials

• Winfried Rief, PhD, Prof

  Philipps University Marburg

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 30, 2017
• First Posted: February 8, 2017
• Study Start: March 15, 2017
• Primary Completion: June 8, 2017
• Study Completion: June 8, 2017
• Last Updated: June 9, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-06

Locations

DE (1)