Association between physicians' and patients' perspectives of shared decision making in primary care settings in Japan: The impact of environmental factors.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Shared decision-making (SDM) has only lately begun attaining recognition from the Japanese medical community. The purpose of this study was to create a Japanese version of the SDM-Q-Doc, which is a scale that measures SDM from the perspective of physicians, and to clarify its psychometric characteristics and identify the issues and factors that affect SDM.

Methods

The participants were 23 physicians and 130 patients who visited primary care clinics in Japan for the first time. Immediately following physician-patient interviews, the Japanese version of SDM-Q-9 and SDM-Q-Doc were administered to patients and physicians, respectively. For convergent validity, physician confidence in the medical interview (PCMI) was used. After the determination of internal consistency a

SUBMITTER: Goto Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7875412 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature