Decisional Conflict During Major Medical Treatment Decision-making: a Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Both patients and surrogate decision-makers experience decisional conflict when making a major medical treatment decision with life or death implications. The relationship between health literacy and decisional conflict while making a major medical treatment decision is not understood.

Objective

To identify the prevalence of individuals making major medical treatment decisions for themselves or someone else and to explore the relationships between decisional conflict and circumstances of the decision as well as the decision-maker.

Design

Two-phase survey study: in phase 1, we screened for who made a major treatment decision; in phase 2, we asked eligible respondents about their experience making the decision.

Participants

Address-based random sample

SUBMITTER: Pecanac KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7431116 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature