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

NCT ID: NCT00500136

Last Updated: 2016-10-04

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

49 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2007-01-31

Study Completion Date

2007-05-31

Brief Summary

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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.

Detailed Description

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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.

Conditions

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Prejudice

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

FACTORIAL

Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Interventions

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mortality salience

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* medical students

Exclusion Criteria

* non-medical students
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Missouri-Columbia

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Jamie Arndt

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Jamie Arndt, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Missouri-Columbia

Locations

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University of Missouri

Columbia, Missouri, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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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.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Other Identifiers

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R01CA096581

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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1078398

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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