Questionable Health Behaviors and Their Distal and Proximal Correlates (REASON4HEALTH)

Questionable Health Behaviors and Their Distal and Proximal Correlates: Protocol for a Nationally Representative Survey in Serbia

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).

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Questionable Health Behaviors and Their Distal and Proximal Correlates

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 1043

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Serbia
  • Belgrade, Serbia, 11000
    • Faculty of Philosophy

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

general population

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
General population

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) use	Prevalence of TCAM use	baseline
intentional non-adherence to official medical recommendations (iNAR)	Prevalence of iNAR	baseline

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Belgrade
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Goran Knezevic, prof., Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 15, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 1, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): August 1, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 28, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 10, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): April 11, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): December 4, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 28, 2023
• Last Verified: November 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: TCAM/ iNAR/ distal predictors /proximal predictors / irrational mindset
• Other Study ID Numbers: 7739597 (Other Grant/Funding Number: Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No