Perspectives on advance directives in Japanese society: A population-based questionnaire survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Japan, discussion concerning advance directives (ADs) has been on the rise during the past decade. ADs are one method proposed to facilitate the process of communication among patients, families and health care providers regarding the plan of care of a patient who is no longer capable of communicating. In this paper, we report the results of the first in-depth survey on the general population concerning the preferences and use of ADs in Japan.

Method

A self-administered questionnaire was sent via mail to a stratified random sampling of 560 residents listed in the residential registry of one district of Tokyo, Japan (n = 165,567). Association between correlating factors and specific preferences toward ADs was assessed using contingency table bivariate analysis a

SUBMITTER: Akabayashi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC272930 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature