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

The Effects of Religion and Motivation on Medical Decision Making: A Terror Management Approach

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00500136

Enrollment

Registered

2007-07-12

Start date

2007-01-31

Completion date

2007-05-31

Last updated

2016-10-04

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Conditions

Prejudice

Keywords

bias

Brief summary

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

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.

Interventions

PROCEDUREmortality salience

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

FACTORIAL

Primary purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Masking

SINGLE (Subject)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* medical students

Exclusion criteria

* non-medical students

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Responses on a scale of 0-100 to each of three cardiac risk questions	immediate

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026