Cancer-Related Decision-Making Among Adolescents, Young Adults, Caregivers, and Oncology Providers.

ABSTRACT: Decision-making among adolescents and young adults with cancer (AYA) is often complex, ongoing, and multifaceted, involving caregiver and oncology provider perspectives. Engagement in decision-making against the backdrop of normative developmental processes of acquiring autonomy and gaining independence contributes to the complexity of decision-making. Semi-structured qualitative interviews from 11 AYA and caregiver dyads and eight oncology providers examined decision-making processes with specific attention to the role of shared decision-making, cognitive and emotional processes, and coping with the decision-making experience. Five decision-making patterns were identified, with collaborative decision-making and AYA-driven decisions most commonly described. Utilizing hypothes

SUBMITTER: Darabos K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9198895 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature