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Patients' Preferences for Traditional Medicine Doctor's Attire

NCT01397344 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 175

Last updated 2015-09-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Doctors' attire has known to impact patients' trust and confidence for better clinical practice. However, few survey research regarding this topic has been conducted in traditional asian medicine field. The aim of our study is to determine whether traditional medicine doctor's attire impacts on patients' confidence and trust.

Participants will be given randomly one set of photographs from the 2 kind of photographs, i.e., photographs of a male or female doctor, each set dressed in 4 different styles.

After this, they will be asked to report their preferences for the 4 styles of dress according to given questions and they will answer the degree of their feeling on the importance of Korean Medicine doctor's appearance.

Conditions

  • Attire Preference

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Korean Medicine Hospital of Pusan National University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jun-Yong Choi, MS · Korean Medicine Hospital of Pusan National University

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-07-31
Primary Completion
2012-06-30
Completion
2013-12-31

Countries

  • South Korea

Study Locations

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