Health Information and Decision Making Preference on Disease Treatment
Abstract: Medical decision
making is a complex cognitive process of choosing in establishing a diagnosis
and selecting a management option in the context of healthcare. Patients may
desire to take part in obtaining and exchanging information, discussing over
options and making the final decisions about treatment and or care. The focus
of the study was to identify the health information and decision making
preference on diseases treatment.
Methods: A descriptive study was conducted to 110 respondents from
Hegarmanah Village, Sumedang, Indonesia, aged 18–65 years old who had the
experience in consulting doctors for their medical problems. This study was
carried out during the period of September to October 2013. The respondents
were selected using random stratified sampling. A tested questionnaire,
consisted of 2 sections, was used to collect the data. The collected data were
presented using frequency tabulation.
Results: Most of the respondents preferred to be offered choices and
asked for their opinions by their doctors. Furthermore, 55.45% preferred to
rely on physicians for medical knowledge and 93.64% agreed that they had rights
in getting all the information on their medical problems, so they submitted
their decision to the doctors for care or treatment.
Conclusions: This study shows that preference of the patients varies with
regard to how much patients want to participate as one, which may have
different preference for different components of the decision making process,
yet there is a shift of paradigm from paternalistic to collaborative decicion making between doctor
and patient.
Author: Muhammad Hasif Bin
Mohamed Ali, Yoni Syukriani, Bambang Sulthana
Journal Code: jpkedokterangg150305