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Risk Literacy Among Portuguese Medical and Dentistry Students

NCT04380428 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 950

Last updated 2021-02-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study is an online survey to assess risk literacy among students of the medical and dentistry faculties in Portugal. Risk literacy is the capability to understand and interpret statistical information, based on simple rules of thumb.

The investigators assess the level of "medical risk literacy" among Portuguese medical and dentistry students with the Quick Risk Test (QRT) and the multiple choice version of the Berlin Numeracy Test (BNT).

Conditions

  • Medical Education
  • Decision Support Techniques

Interventions

OTHER

No Intervention. Observational study.

No Intervention. Observational study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Harding Center for Risk Literacy

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Niklas Keller, Dr. rer. nat · Harding Center, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

  • Alexej Zhogov · Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

  • Maxim Benz · Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

  • Mário Pereira Pinto, Dr. · Presidency of the Portuguese Republic, Portugal

  • Henrique Proença da Cunha, Dr. · Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, Portugal

  • Gerd Gigerenzer, Prof. · Harding Center for Risk Literacy

  • Miriam Jenny, Dr. · Harding Center for Risk Literacy

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-06-15
Primary Completion
2020-07-31
Completion
2020-07-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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