Measuring Anticipated Attitudes and Behavior Towards a New Medical Treatment in Lesotho

Summary

The primary research objective is to examine how uncertainty towards a new medical treatment changes in patients when a partner (can be any close other, i.e. romantic partner, family member, or a close friend) supports the new treatment choice and is willing to be involved in the patient's treatment. I hypothesize that when the patients know that their partner supports uptake of the new medical treatment and will physically accompany them to the visit, patients will (1) experience lower levels of uncertainty and (2) report a higher likelihood of participating in a new treatment in the future, as compared to patients who face the decision about the new treatment alone.

Conditions

• Health Behavior
• Motivation
• Health Care Utilization
• Consumer Behavior
• Social Behavior
• Health Care Seeking Behavior
• Recruitment
• Researcher-Subject Relations

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Partner support

The intervention group's survey vignette will include a component of partner support which serves as the key behavioral manipulation tested for this study's primary outcome.

BEHAVIORAL

Formal recruiter attire

The SWAT will separately test recruitment rates - as measured by rate of survey completion divided by total number of individuals approached - based on how the recruiters are dressed. FORMAL dress code of the recruiter is the intervention in this case, defined as clinical attire alluding to some clinical authority.

BEHAVIORAL

Without Partner support

The intervention group's survey vignette will NOT include a component of partner support which serves as the key behavioral manipulation tested for this study's primary outcome.

BEHAVIORAL

Casual recruiter attire

The SWAT will separately test recruitment rates - as measured by rate of survey completion divided by total number of individuals approached - based on how the recruiters are dressed. CASUAL dress code of the recruiter is the intervention in this case.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• SolidarMed

  collaborator OTHER

• University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Grace H Yoon, MSc · University Hospital Basel, University of Basel

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-02-15

Primary Completion

2024-09-13

Completion

2024-09-13

Countries

• Lesotho

Study Locations