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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain. 2020 Jun 13;21(11-12):1160–1174. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2020.03.001

Figure 2.

Figure 2.

The design of the current study. (A) We randomly assigned participants to the role of either patient or clinician (1 in each group/dyad). During each study session, a patient took part in two simulated clinical interactions, one with a clinician from the same color group (CC interaction) and one with a clinician from the other color group (DC interaction), with the interaction order counterbalanced. (B) An example of the recorded clinical simulation. Participants were provided with clothing to match their roles: hospital gowns for patients and white lab coats with scrubs for clinicians. (C) Each clinical interaction included 16 heat trials: a medium heat “washout” stimulus (47.5°C) delivered to each skin site (4 trials) at the beginning of the heat stimulation procedure for the initial habituation of the skin site to contact heat followed by a single trial at each temperature on each of the 4 skin sites (12 trials) in a randomized order.