A comparison of adult-child and spousal cancer caregivers' participation in medical decisions.
Anny T H R FentonKatherine A OrnsteinErin E KentEllen Miller-SonetAlexi A WrightJames Nicholas Dionne-OdomPublished in: PloS one (2024)
How cancer caregivers and patients are related to each other shapes caregivers' medical decision-making. Adult-children's and spouses' probabilities of participating in and influencing decisions differed for certain types of decisions while adult-children were more likely to seek information and social support regarding decisions. These findings highlight the importance of the patient's and caregiver's relationship type in medical decision-making, suggesting that decision support programs may be more effective if they tailor programs by relationship type.
Keyphrases
- decision making
- social support
- childhood cancer
- young adults
- papillary thyroid
- palliative care
- healthcare
- end stage renal disease
- depressive symptoms
- squamous cell
- public health
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- physical activity
- lymph node metastasis
- squamous cell carcinoma
- patient reported