NCT05808660

Questionable Health Behaviors and Their Distal and Proximal Correlates

Questionable Health Behaviors and Their Distal and Proximal Correlates: Protocol for a Nationally Representative Survey in Serbia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,043 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Belgrade · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goals of the study: 1. to investigate the frequency of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine use (TCAM) and intentional Non-adherence to medical recommendations (iNAR) in the general population in Serbia, as well as their mutual relations. 2. to examine the distribution of irrational beliefs in the general population; 3. to explore the relationships between TCAM and iNAR behaviors on the one hand and variables of personality, thinking styles and cognitive reflection on the other, with a major assumption that these relationships will be mediated by the domain of irrational beliefs and socio-political attitudes. Participants will respond to a battery of instruments assessing TCAM use and iNAR, as well as, sociodemographics and health-related variables (such as health status, chronic diseases, BMI, etc.), distal psychological (i.e. personality, thinking disposition and styles) and proximal psychological, variables, (i.e. the irrational mindset, as well as socio-political beliefs and attitudes). Data will be collected on the probabilistic household sample representative for the general population in Serbia (N=1043).

Conditions

• Questionable Health Behaviors and Their Distal and Proximal Correlates

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-06-15
• Primary completion: 2023-08-01
• Completion: 2023-08-01
• First posted: 2023-04-11
• Last updated: 2023-12-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Serbia