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The Effect of Remote Treatment on Medical Provider Creative Thinking and Patient Disclosure

NCT06784635 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 388

Last updated 2025-01-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators will be doing this study to understand how the environment of communication (including talking about health) impact doctors' ability to find solutions and health issues to clinical problems for patients.

Participants are being asked to take part in this research study because they are either:

* A final year medical student
* OR a person willing to act out a diagnosis.

Participants will do a few tasks:

* Questionnaires: Participants will be asked to complete a questionnaire before and after a short interview. The investigators will ask participants questions to find out their general psychological traits and skills, which can affect clinical interviews. The investigators believe it should take about 10 to 15 minutes to complete the questionnaire.
* Demographic Information: The investigators will ask participants about demographics, which may include their age, gender identity, race and ethnicity.
* Interview with a medical student/patient: This will be a recorded interview between a medical student and person acting as a patient. In this meeting, they will either meet online or in person, with white noise on or off, in a brightly lit room or a regularly lit room.

* Acting patients will be given a hypothetical condition, with a list of symptoms included. Besides this list, they will be asked to answer the medical questions as though they are themselves (e.g., height, weight)
* Medical students will be given a list of tip questions that will help with their diagnosis.

Conditions

  • Focus is on Behavior of Health Professionals Generally

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

In person

Participant dyads will meet in person for a mock clinical interview, seated at a desk opposite their counterpart. They will be in an office setting. There will be a sham white noise and lamp device placed on the desk.

BEHAVIORAL

Online interaction

Participant dyads will meet online in a mock clinical interview, via an encrypted video call, seated at a desk. They will be in an office setting. There will be a sham white noise and lamp device placed on the desk.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ayoub Bouguettaya

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ayoub Bouguettaya, PhD · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-07-30
Primary Completion
2027-07-29
Completion
2027-12-20

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