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Effect of advanced cancer patients’ awareness of disease status on treatment decisional conflicts and satisfaction during palliative chemotherapy: a Korean prospective cohort study
- Source :
- Supportive Care in Cancer. 20:1309-1316
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2011.
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Abstract
- Our purpose was to evaluate the effect of cancer patients’ awareness of their incurable disease status on decisional conflict and satisfaction with treatment choice. In this prospective cohort study, advanced cancer patients who were offered palliative chemotherapy completed questionnaires on their knowledge of their condition, their treatment decision conflicts, and their satisfaction with their treatment decisions. We enrolled 98 patients; 94 reported that they were aware of their advanced status and 50 were not. Decisional conflicts for all patients showed a significant decrease after treatment, but aware patients were significantly more satisfied with their decision (P = 0.02). Patients’ awareness of their incurable status was associated with greater satisfaction with their decision to receive palliative chemotherapy.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Disease status
Pain medicine
Decision Making
Antineoplastic Agents
Decisional conflict
Cohort Studies
Young Adult
Neoplasms
Surveys and Questionnaires
Republic of Korea
medicine
Humans
Prospective Studies
Prospective cohort study
Aged
business.industry
Nursing research
Palliative Care
Cancer
Palliative chemotherapy
Awareness
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Advanced cancer
Oncology
Patient Satisfaction
Family medicine
Physical therapy
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14337339 and 09414355
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Supportive Care in Cancer
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0e2a43d4eda96ea18f6960808daa7b16