NCT05863000

Patient Behavior in Region H: How Does Illness Affect How You Act and Master Your Life?

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 800 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Rigshospitalet, Denmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study investigates how the behavior within different patient groups are affected differently by illness and disease. The investigators ask how participants experience and approach their own health in order to gain insight on the implications of illness and disease on the individual's everyday life and how participants act and think regarding their own health and wellbeing across different patient groups. The investigators' hypothesis is that illness and disease is experienced as a great disturbance and an actor of change in a person's everyday life. Each person has their own individual experience and reaction to this disturbance. Still, there is less evidence for how disparate resources and socioeconomic statuses shape how patients react to this great change in their lives. Here the investigators expect to find demographic patterns across patient groups. The study carries a quantitative and qualitative approach with a broad target population which includes both patients with acute or chronic, serious, or less serious, somatic as well as psychiatric illnesses. The study is placed within the academic traditions of sociological health and disease mapping.

Conditions

• Comparison, Social

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Online questionnaire/survey	Participants are expected to answer a short survey based on their overall experiences with their own health. No participants will therefore be followed for more than the duration of time it takes a subject to answer the questionnaire (approx 15 minutes). Randomly selected volunteers of around 30 respondents will afterwards be invited to participate in a qualitative interview with the intend to elaborate their questionnaire responds.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-01
• Primary completion: 2023-09-01
• Completion: 2024-03-01
• First posted: 2023-05-17
• Last updated: 2023-05-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark