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Title: | Education and role modelling for clinical decisions with female cancer patients | Contributor(s): | Brown, Rhonda (author); Botow, Phyllis N (author); Sharrock, Merin Anne (author); Henman, Michael (author); Boyle, Fran (author); Goldstein, David (author); Martin, HN (author); Tattersall, MD (author) | Publication Date: | 2004 | DOI: | 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2004.00294.x | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/3613 | Abstract: | Background: Patients vary widely in their preferences and capacity for participating in treatment decision-making. There are few interventions targeting patient understanding of how doctors make decisions and shared decision-making. This randomized trial investigates the effects of providing cancer patients with a package designed to facilitate shared decision-making prior to seeing their oncologist. Patients and methods: Sixty-five female cancer patients were randomized to receive either the package (booklet and 15-min video) or a booklet on living with cancer, before their initial consultation. Participants completed questionnaires prior to the intervention, immediately after the oncology consultation, and 2 weeks and 6 months later. The first consultation with the oncologist was audio-taped and transcribed. Results: Patients receiving the package were more likely than controls to declare their information and treatment preferences in the consultation, and their perspectives on the costs, side-effects and benefits of treatment. Doctors introduced considerably more new themes in the consultations with intervention subjects than they did with controls; no other differences in doctor behaviour were noted. Conclusions: This short intervention successfully shifted patient and doctor behaviour closer to the shared decision-making model, although it did not alter patients' preferences for information or involvement. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Health Expectations, 7(4), p. 303-316 | Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1369-7625 1369-6513 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 920102 Cancer and Related Disorders | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Psychology |
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