Questionable Health Behaviors and Their Distal and Proximal Correlates

NCT ID: NCT05808660

Last Updated: 2023-12-04

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

1043 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-06-15

Study Completion Date

2023-08-01

Brief Summary

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The goals of the study:

1. to investigate the frequency of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine use (TCAM) and intentional Non-adherence to medical recommendations (iNAR) in the general population in Serbia, as well as their mutual relations.
2. to examine the distribution of irrational beliefs in the general population;
3. to explore the relationships between TCAM and iNAR behaviors on the one hand and variables of personality, thinking styles and cognitive reflection on the other, with a major assumption that these relationships will be mediated by the domain of irrational beliefs and socio-political attitudes.

Participants will respond to a battery of instruments assessing TCAM use and iNAR, as well as, sociodemographics and health-related variables (such as health status, chronic diseases, BMI, etc.), distal psychological (i.e. personality, thinking disposition and styles) and proximal psychological, variables, (i.e. the irrational mindset, as well as socio-political beliefs and attitudes).

Data will be collected on the probabilistic household sample representative for the general population in Serbia (N=1043).

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Questionable Health Behaviors and Their Distal and Proximal Correlates

Keywords

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TCAM/ iNAR/ distal predictors /proximal predictors / irrational mindset

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

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General population

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* must be at least 18 years of age

Exclusion Criteria

* the inability to understand the Serbian language
* failure to pass any of the four attention-check questions
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

75 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Belgrade

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Ljiljana Lazarevic

Senior Researcher

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Goran Knezevic, prof.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Locations

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Faculty of Philosophy

Belgrade, , Serbia

Site Status

Countries

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Serbia

References

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Knezevic G, Lazarevic L, Puric D, Zupan Z, Zezelj I. Prevalence of questionable health behaviours in Serbia and their psychological roots: protocol for a nationally representative survey. BMJ Open. 2023 Oct 12;13(10):e075274. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075274.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 37827738 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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7739597

Identifier Type: OTHER_GRANT

Identifier Source: secondary_id

7739597

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id