Unraveling patients' readiness in advance care planning conversations: a qualitative study as part of the ACTION Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Patients' readiness for advance care planning (ACP) is often considered a prerequisite for starting ACP conversations. Healthcare professionals' uncertainty about patients' readiness hampers the uptake of ACP in clinical practice. This study aims To determine how patients' readiness is expressed and develops throughout an ACP conversation.

Methods

A qualitative sub-study into the ACTION ACP conversations collected as part of the international Phase III multicenter cluster-randomized clinical trial. A purposeful sample was taken of ACP conversations of patients with advanced lung or colorectal cancer who participated in the ACTION study between May 2015 and December 2018 (n = 15). A content analysis of the ACP conversations was conducted.

Results

All patients (

SUBMITTER: Zwakman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8062377 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature