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Patient Perceptions of Physician Education and Quality by Race

NCT04940234 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1500

Last updated 2021-12-13

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Summary

Research has documented positive effects of doctor-patient race concordance, suggesting that increasing diversity among healthcare professionals may play an important role in addressing well-documented racial health disparities in the US. It also remains critical to improve the quality of interactions in race discordant doctor-patient relationships. However, as health systems consider policies to increase the number of minority healthcare professionals, especially among doctors, questions about the equilibrium effects of such initiatives naturally emerge. In this project, the investigators examine whether and how patients vary their perceptions of healthcare professionals by race.

Conditions

  • Racism
  • Bias, Racial

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Exposure to a Photo

We plan to recruit subjects and randomly assign them to one of four treatments. In each treatment arm, the subject will view a photo of a man. We experimentally vary treatment along two dimensions: whether the man is wearing expert vs. layperson attire and whether the man is white vs. black. We will survey participants' beliefs about the actors' educational attainment and perceived quality as measured by subjects' willingness to accept medical advice for non-urgent health issues or participate in a clinical trial being led by the individual in the photo.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
25 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-08-19
Primary Completion
2021-08-31
Completion
2021-10-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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