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Table 4 Overview of pilot study questionnaire

From: Development and testing of study tools and methods to examine ethnic bias and clinical decision-making among medical students in New Zealand: The Bias and Decision-Making in Medicine (BDMM) study

Module order

Items/questions

Basic demographic questions

Age

Gender

Ethnicity

Vignettes

CVD

Mental Health

- patient ethnicity and vignette order were randomly assigned to participants in blocks of eight i.e. randomisation was evenly distributed for every eight participants

- questions related to each vignette on patient diagnosis, management and participant perspectives of patients

Implicit bias

Ethnicity preference IAT

Ethnicity and compliant patient IAT

Social desirability

The RAND 5-item Socially Desirable Response Set [66]

Explicit bias

Questions on explicit bias (knowledge of inequalities, compliance, competence, warmth, ethnicity preference)

Demographic questions

SES growing up

Born in NZ

Time in NZ (if not born here)

Pilot only questions

How long did it take you to complete the survey?

Where did you complete the survey?

Did you have any problem logging in to the survey?

Did you have any technical difficulties undertaking this survey?

Did you have any difficulties understanding and following the survey instructions?

Do you have any further comments about how you found the process of completing the web-based survey?