Influences on patient participation and decision-making in care.
Encouragement for patients to participate in their own care and to share decision-making with nurses and doctors is a common theme in the literature and government directives. But how do patients feel about it? An observation-and-interview-based study found five main factors that influenced patients' willingness and ability to actively participate in their care.
Henderson
Saras
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School of Nursing and Midwifery, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia.
D001294:Attitude to Health; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000523:psychology*