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

Gender Role Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03546114
• Other study ID #: 052018
• Status: Completed
• Start date: April 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: February 15, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: August 2019
• Source: Istituto Superiore di Osteopatia di Milano
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 105
• Est. completion date: February 15, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: February 1, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria: first visit at the osteopathic clinic (Centro di Medicina Osteopatica) Milan

Exclusion Criteria: non-Italian speaking

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Gender Role

Intervention

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

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Italy	Istituto Superiore di Osteopatia	Milan	MI

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Istituto Superiore di Osteopatia di Milano

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Italy, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Gender questionnaire (Self-reported 13-items questionnaire)	Patient's gender?; Patient's age?; Educational level? (middle school, high school, BSc, MSc, PhD); Naive to osteopathic treatment? (yes/no); Only if the answer of question 5 is yes, which was the osteopath's gender at your first osteopathic consultation?; Which would be your favorite osteopath's gender?; Which would be your favorite osteopath's gender if you had low back pain?; Which would be your favorite osteopath's gender if you had neck pain?; Which would be your favorite osteopath's gender if you had gastrointestinal disorders?; Which would be your favorite osteopath's gender if you had upper limb pain?; Which would be your favorite osteopath's gender if you had lower limb pain?; Which would be your favorite osteopath's gender if you had headache?; Which would be your favorite osteopath's gender if you had urogenital disorders? Questions 7-13: Choose among: female, male, no preference	1 day