Health Information Preferences and Curability Beliefs Among Patients With Advanced Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Accurate prognostic understanding is associated with increased advance care planning, symptom control, and patient autonomy in oncology. The impact of prognostic understanding on patients' health information preferences (HIPs) and prognostic information preferences is unknown and has important implications for health care communication.

Objectives

The present study characterized the HIPs of patients with advanced cancer; examined differences in HIPs between patients with varying curability beliefs; and identified differences in the characteristics and psychological well-being of patients with varying curability beliefs.

Methods

This cross-sectional study used a secondary data analysis of baseline data (prerandomization) for patients enrolled in a large randomi

SUBMITTER: Saracino RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7770014 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature