Analogue patients’ self-reported engagement and psychophysiological arousal in a video-vignettes design: patients versus disease-naïve individuals

Highlights • For a video-vignette design to be ecologically valid, analogue patients (APs) should be engaged. • Patients and disease-naïve individuals were compared on their engagement with the vignette. • Engagement was assessed by using self-report and in the form of psychophysiological arousal. • Being (former) patient or disease-naïve was not a major determinant of APs’ engagement. • Older age was associated with higher self-reported engagement and blood pressure.