Healthy participants, who were faced with a hypothetical decision situation (cruciate ligament rupture, decision about a treatment)
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: All participants watched an information video about a surgery (cruciate ligament rupture).
Group 1: realistic video (showing real pictures)
Group 2: schematic video (showing animated picture
Sponsors
Leibniz-Wissenschaftscampus "Cognitive Interfaces"
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Registered in the participant database of the Leibniz-Institut fuer Wissensmedien (voluntary and open to everyone who is interested to participate in psychological studies) 2. Age: 18 or older 3. Fluent in the German language 4. Agreement to watch a medical video (in the invitation and in the informed consent form participants were made aware that they might watch a video demonstrating the surgery on a body donor)
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Medical or sports students and people working in a medical profession 2. Age: younger than 18 3. not fluent in the German language
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| All outcomes were measured with questionaires on a computer. - Certainty regarding the decison for or against a surgery (measured before and after watching the information video): 5 items, self-constructed, 5-point Likert scale - Emotions (measured after watching the video): subscales fear and disgust, with 3 items each from the modified Differential Affect Scale, on a 5-point Likert scale - Attitude toward the surgery (measured before and after watching the video): 4 bipolar items on a 7-point scale, from Marteau et al. (2001) - Factual knowledge (measured after watching the video): 5 items, self-constructed, multiple choice or entry of a single word/number - Procedural knowledge (measured after watching the video): sorting task, self-constructed | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| - Hypothetical decison for or against a surgery (measured before and after watching the video): 1 item, self-constructed, 5-point Likert scale - General evaluation of the video (measured after watching the video): 4 items, self-constructed | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactMarie Eggeling
Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien
Outcome results
None listed