Medical Students' Attitudes and Experiences Regarding Persuasion of Patients by Physicians: Clarifying the Ethics of Shared Decision Making.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ethical principles of autonomy and beneficence guide clinical decision making. Little is known about how clinicians prioritize these principles and integrate them with virtue ethics when assessing the ethics of persuasion.

Objective

Survey medical students about their attitudes and experiences regarding the use of persuasion by physicians in shared decision making.

Design

Cross-sectional, on-line survey.

Participants

Pre-clinical and clinical medical students at one US medical school.

Main measures

Survey instrument contained 31 items including a three-part clinical vignette, attitudes toward persuasion and ethical principles, experiences observing or participating in persuasion, and demographic information. Bivariate and multivariable analyse

SUBMITTER: Muckler J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12686280 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature