NCT03046940

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Philipps University Marburg · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Patient-centered style of communication	Different doctor-patient communication
OTHER	Doctor-centered style of communication	Different doctor-patient communication

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-03-15
• Primary completion: 2017-06-08
• Completion: 2017-06-08
• First posted: 2017-02-08
• Last updated: 2017-06-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany