Different patients, different preferences: A multicenter assessment of patients' personality traits and anxiety in shared decision making.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Patient-centered care and shared decision making (SDM) are generally recognized as the gold standard for medical consultations, especially for preference-sensitive decisions. However, little is known about psychological patient characteristics that influence patient-reported preferences. We set out to explore the role of personality and anxiety for a preference-sensitive decision in bladder cancer patients (choice of urinary diversion, UD) and to determine if anxiety predicts patients' participation preferences.

Methods

We recruited a sample of bladder cancer patients (N = 180, primarily male, retired) who awaited a medical consultation on radical cystectomy and their choice of UD. We asked patients to fill in a set of self-report questionnaires before this consult

SUBMITTER: Kother AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9359866 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature