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Patient Doctor Lies

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT04803448

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Official title

Patient Doctor Lies: When is Privacy Assurance a Bad Thing? A Randomized Clinical Trial

Brief summary

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Accurate patient information disclosure is critical to provide optimal treatment. Methods that can detect and then increase the truthfulness of information are relatively unknown. To investigate the impact of communication about privacy, benefits, and risk on patient truthfulness, the investigators test two new methods to detect patient truthfulness and demonstrate the effects of privacy notices (e.g. HIPPA statements). Participants include a national online sample randomly assigned to one of six treatment statements that might be typically given before health information was requested. The assigned treatments include one or mix of the following: privacy notice, statement of the benefits of accurate disclosure, and statement of the risks of inaccurate disclosure and control of no statement before being asked typical health questions. The investigators propose that based on elaboration likelihood model, statements reminding participants of their privacy will increase lying. The investigators hypothesis the use of a new biometric mouse movement lie detection method and answer adjustment can measure patient lies. The investigators hypothesis that reminders of the risk of not telling the truth will reduce lying due to risk aversion. Lastly the investigators hypothesis that statements of benefits of answering truthfully will increase truthfulness.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT04803448
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
University of Utah
Other
Enrollment
619 participants

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years to 80 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Feb 11, 2020
Primary completion
Apr 18, 2020
Completion
Apr 18, 2020
Last update posted
Mar 16, 2021

2020

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Brigham Young University Provo Utah 84602

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