Communicating with physicians about medical decisions: A reluctance to disagree

摘要

Methods. An online panel of 1340 patients older than 40 years who had visited a physician within the last year read a hypothetical scenario about treatment of heart disease and were surveyed about 3 behaviors key to reaching a shared decision: (1) asking questions, (2) discussing preferences, and (3) voicing disagreement, when relevant. The survey was theoretically grounded and drew on the psy-chosocial constructs of the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction, which posits that 3 respondent characteristics influence, for purposes of our study, a patient's intention to engage in a health-related communication behavior.