Decision-Making Preferences among Advanced Cancer Patients in a Palliative Setting in Jordan.

ABSTRACT: Understanding patients' decision-making preferences is crucial for enhancing patients' outcomes. The current study aims to identify Jordanian advanced cancer patients' preferred decision-making and to explore the associated variables of the passive decision-making preference. We used a cross-sectional survey design. Patients with advanced cancer referred to the palliative care clinic at a tertiary cancer center were recruited. We measured patients' decision-making preferences using the Control Preference Scale. Patients' satisfaction with decision-making was assessed with the Satisfaction with Decision Scale. Cohen's kappa statistic was used to assess the agreement between decision-control preferences and actual decision-making, and the bivariate analysis with 95% CI and the univariate and

SUBMITTER: Shamieh O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10138437 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature