Shared Decision Making in a General Hospital

Psychiatric Hospital of Attica

Status: Completed

Conditions: Surgical Procedure, Unspecified; General Medical Condition

Treatments: Procedure: Any appropriate surgical treatment; Drug: Any appropriate drug or non-drug treatment excluding surgery

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03537352

PsychiatricHA

Details and patient eligibility

About

A pilot cross-sectional study will investigate the differential effect of the type of disorder (surgical versus non-surgical) on the scores of the 9-item shared decision making questionnaire.

Full description

During a pilot cross-sectional study, the 9- Item Shared Decision Making Questionnaire (9SDMQ) will be administered in two groups of participants, one (N=60) suffering from surgical diseases and one (N=60) from non-surgical medical diseases. Patients hospitalized in four acute wards (2 surgical and 2 non-surgical wards) or visiting the relevant outpatient departments of the Triassion General Hospital of Elefsina, Greece will be recruited. The primary outcome will be the difference on the 9SDMQ scores (transformed in a 1-100% scale) in patients suffering from surgical versus non-surgical disorders. Secondary outcome measures will include the effect of patients' demographic and clinical variables, of physicians' demographic variables and of the score on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment on the 9SDMQ scores. Additionally the relationship of patients' satisfaction on the 9SDMQ scores will also be investigated.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hospitalization in the Thriassion General Hospital of Elefsina
• Ability to give informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to complete the neuropsychological assessment
• Mental retardation

Trial design

120 participants in 2 patient groups

Surgical Disorders

Description:

A. Surgical Disorders: 1. Current Hospitalization at the Surgical Inpatient Department or at the Inpatient Department of Otorhinolaryngology or at the Inpatient Department of Cardiology OR 2. Current Follow-up at the Surgical Outpatient Department or at the Outpatient Department of Otorhinolaryngology or at the Outpatient Department of Cardiology due to a disorder for which any appropriate surgical treatment (surgery) is a treatment option.

Treatment:

Procedure: Any appropriate surgical treatment

Non-Surgical General Medical Disorders

Description:

1. Current Hospitalization at the Internal Medicine Inpatient Department or at the Inpatient Department of Cardiology OR 2. Current Follow-up at the Internal Medicine Outpatient Department or at the Outpatient Department of Cardiology due to a disorder for which surgery is not a treatment option and any appropriate drug or non-drug treatment excluding surgery is a treatment option.

Treatment:

Drug: Any appropriate drug or non-drug treatment excluding surgery