Patient participation in decision-making about cardiovascular preventive drugs - resistance as agency.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of the study was to describe and explore patient agency through resistance in decision-making about cardiovascular preventive drugs in primary care.

Design

Six general practitioners from the southeast of Sweden audiorecorded 80 consultations. From these, 28 consultations with proposals from GPs for cardiovascular preventive drug treatments were chosen for theme-oriented discourse analysis.

Results

The study shows how patients participate in decision-making about cardiovascular preventive drug treatments through resistance in response to treatment proposals. Passive modes of resistance were withheld responses and minimal unmarked acknowledgements. Active modes were to ask questions, contest the address of an inclusive we, present an identity as a non-

SUBMITTER: Hultberg J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5592349 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature