Shared decision-making helps patients to establish a treatment plan with clinicians together. Our goal was to determine if the tools we developed could reduced decisional conflict for patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
Shared decision-making helps patients to establish a treatment plan with clinicians together. Our goal was to determine if the tools we developed could reduced decisional conflict for patients with obstructive sleep apnea. Inclusion criteria: include obstructive sleep apnea patient from the outpatient clinic of Dean Wu, the sleep center of Shuang-He Hospital, 20-80 years old, polysomnography showed moderate severity (AHI ≥ 15), can communicate in Chinese. Exclusion criteria: dementia, mental illness, language difficulties.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
90
Decision aid is a tool that helps patients become involved in decision making on choosing treatment plans. Decision aid provides information about the options and outcomes, and by clarifying personal values.
Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital
New Taipei City, Taiwan
RECRUITINGDecision conflict
We'd like to measure the score of SURE test, which published by Légaré at 2008, as a decisional conflict scale. SURE includes 4 questions representing "sure of myself, understand information, risk-benefit ratio, encouragement". Each question consisted of a typical five-level Likert item (strongly disagree, disagree, neither agree nor disagree, agree, strongly agree).
Time frame: Immediately after patient received standard oral explanation with booklet or decision aids at out-patient department
Health literacy
Self-evaluation score of health literacy. We measure health literacy via one question of SURE test (Sure of myself - Do you feel SURE about the best choice for you?). This question also consisted of a typical five-level Likert item (strongly disagree, disagree, neither agree nor disagree, agree, strongly agree).
Time frame: Immediately after patient received standard oral explanation with booklet or decision aids at out-patient department
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