Advance care planning for patients with cancer and family caregivers in Indonesia: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individuals' willingness to engage in advance care planning is influenced by factors such as culture and religious beliefs. While most studies on advance care planning in Asia have been performed in high-income countries, Indonesia is a lower-middle-income country, with a majority of strongly collectivist and religiously devout inhabitants. We studied the perspectives of Indonesian patients with cancer and family caregivers regarding advance care planning by first exploring their experiences with medical information-disclosure, decision-making, and advance care planning and how these experiences influence their perspectives on advance care planning.

Methods

We conducted semi-structured interviews among 16 patients with cancer and 15 family caregivers in a national

SUBMITTER: Martina D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9682799 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature