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

This study has been completed.

Sponsors and Collaborators:	University of Missouri-Columbia National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Information provided by:	University of Missouri-Columbia
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00500136

Purpose

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.

Condition	Intervention
Prejudice Bias	Procedure: mortality salience

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Basic Science, Randomized, Single Blind, Active Control, Factorial Assignment
Official Title:	The Effects of Religion and Motivation on Medical Decision Making: A Terror Management Approach

Further study details as provided by University of Missouri-Columbia:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Responses on a scale of 0-100 to each of three cardiac risk questions [ Time Frame: immediate ]

Enrollment:	49
Study Start Date:	January 2007
Study Completion Date:	May 2007

Eligibility

Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

medical students

Exclusion Criteria:

non-medical students

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00500136

Locations

United States, Missouri
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri, United States, 65211

Sponsors and Collaborators

University of Missouri-Columbia

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

Jamie Arndt, PhD

University of Missouri-Columbia

More Information

Publications:

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.

Study ID Numbers:	1078398, R01 CA09658
Study First Received:	July 10, 2007
Last Updated:	July 10, 2007
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00500136
Health Authority:	United States: University of Missouri Campus Institutional Review Board

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 14, 2009