The Psychosocial Effect of Thoughts of Personal Mortality on Cardiac Risk Assessment by Medical Students

Prejudice Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effects of Religion and Motivation on Medical Decision Making: A Terror Management Approach

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00500136
• Other study ID #: 1078398
• Secondary ID: R01CA096581
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 10, 2007
• Last updated: October 3, 2016
• Start date: January 2007
• Est. completion date: May 2007

Study information

• Verified date: October 2016
• Source: University of Missouri-Columbia
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study was designed to examine if provoking thoughts of mortality among medical students can influence cardiac risk assessments depending on the religion of the target patient.

Description:

This study was designed to examine whether and how provoking thoughts of mortality among medical students can influence cardiac risk assessments depending on the religion of the target patient.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 49
• Est. completion date: May 2007
• Est. primary completion date: May 2007
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• medical students

Exclusion Criteria:

• non-medical students

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Basic Science

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Prejudice

Intervention

Procedure:
• mortality salience

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Missouri	Columbia	Missouri

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Missouri-Columbia	National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (1)

Greenberg J, Solomon S, Pyszczynski T. Terror management theory of self-esteem and cultural worldviews: Empirical assessments and conceptual refinements. In: Zanna MP, ed. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. San Diego, CA: Academic Press; 1997:61-139.

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Responses on a scale of 0-100 to each of three cardiac risk questions		immediate	No