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

Istituto Superiore di Osteopatia di Milano

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gender Role

Treatments: Other: Gender Questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03546114

052018

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 105 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

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

Exclusion Criteria: non-Italian speaking

Trial design

105 participants in 1 patient group

Patients referring to an osteopathic clinic - CMO, Milan

Description:

Adults, age\>18 years, first visit at osteopathic clinic (Centro di Medicina Osteopatica)

Treatment:

Other: Gender Questionnaire