The Psychosocial Effect of Thoughts of Personal Mortality on Cardiac Risk Assessment by Medical Students

University of Missouri (MU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Prejudice

Treatments: Procedure: mortality salience

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00500136

1078398

R01CA096581 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was designed to examine if provoking thoughts of mortality among medical students can influence cardiac risk assessments depending on the religion of the target patient.

Full description

This study was designed to examine whether and how provoking thoughts of mortality among medical students can influence cardiac risk assessments depending on the religion of the target patient.

Enrollment: 49 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• medical students

Exclusion criteria

• non-medical students

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind