NCT03546114

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 105 (actual)
• Sponsor: Istituto Superiore di Osteopatia di Milano · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Gender Role

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Gender Questionnaire	13-items questionnaire including demographics questions (gender, age, education; naive to osteopathic treatment or not; general gender preferences; specific gender preference in case of low back pain, neck pain, gastrointestinal disorders, musculoskeletal disorders of upper and lower limbs pain; headache; urogenital disorders

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-01
• Primary completion: 2019-02-01
• Completion: 2019-02-15
• First posted: 2018-06-06
• Last updated: 2019-08-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy