PERSONALITY CORRELATES OF PATIENT/FAMILY PREFERENCES, FOR DOCTOR JUDGMENTS, IN MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

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Simulated cancer patients and their families responses to the Ways of Informing Questionnaire were correlated with their scores on the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire extraversion (E), neuroticism (N), psychoticism (P) and social desirability (L) scales and L/N which signified suppression of emotion or rationality. Results indicated that patients/families preferences for doctor communication styles, truth-telling, never-telling, etc. about diagnosis, and post-diagnosis changes or responses to adverse information, vary with the cure or survival rate, etc., as a function of personality traits. In general : patients' tendency to think antirationally (E+, P+) and to communicate by real intention (L-), i. e. tolerant type characterized by improved QOL or Western culture, was associated with truth-telling ; but to think rationally (E-, P-) and to communicate by professed (not real) intention (L+), intolerant type characterized by deteriorated QOL or Japanese culture, was linked with never-telling : whereas families' tendency to think rationally (L/N+) and to communicate by professed intention (L+), i. e. intolerant type etc., was associated with truth-telling ; but to think antirationally (L/N-) and to communicate by real intention (L-), tolerant type etc., was linked with never-telling. These results demonstrated the kind of subjective differences between the patients and their families.
東京家政学院大学の論文
1996-07-31