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| Personality and health care decision-making style | | Author(s) | Kathryn E Flynn, Maureen A Smith |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 62B, no 5, September 2007 |
| Pages | pp P261-P267 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | 60-64 age group ; Personality ; Attitude ; Dying ; Terminal care ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Using the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) Graduate Survey, a population-based cohort of 3830 older people (most aged 63-66), the authors explored the relationship between five factors of personality and four preference types that account for multiple components of the health care decision-making process (information exchange, deliberation and selection of treatment choice). After adjustment for personal, health, social and economic factors, they found that increased conscientiousness and openness to experience and decreased agreeableness and neuroticism corresponded to preferring the most active decision-making style compared with the least active. A better understanding of how personality traits related to patient decision-making styles may help clinicians to tailor treatment discussions to the needs and preferences of individual patients. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080306204 A |
| Classmark | BBC: DK: DP: CX: LV: 3F: 7T |
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