Table 1.
Multiple-choice question items | Pretest n (%) |
Posttest n (%) |
p value |
---|---|---|---|
Q1: According to the Hospice Palliative Care Act, if a patient is unable to express their wishes and if their adult family members do not prefer cardiopulmonary resuscitation for the patient, what is the “priority order” for the nearest relatives? |
104 (62.7) |
119 (71.7) |
0.007* |
Q2: Which of the following regarding ‘not performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation’ and ‘terminating or withdrawing cardiopulmonary resuscitation’ for terminally ill patients is correct? | 82 (49.4) | 90 (54.2) | <0.001* |
Q3: According to the Patient Autonomy Act, which description of a medical proxy is correct? | 22 (13.3) | 29 (17.5) | 0.001* |
Q4: According to the Patient Autonomy Act, who should be involved in advance medical care consultations before advance medical decisions are made? | 98 (59.0) | 105 (63.3) | <0.001* |
Q5: According to the Patient Autonomy Act, when advance medical directives are in place, in which of the following clinical conditions may health-care institutions or physicians terminate life-sustaining treatment in accordance with the patient’s advance medical directives? | 42 (25.3) | 63 (38.0) | <0.001* |
Q6: According to the Patient Autonomy Act, who can establish advance medical directives? | 108 (65.1) | 112 (67.5) | <0.001* |
Q7: Which of the following descriptions of “advance medical directives” and “advance care planning and health-care decision-making documents” is correct? | 32 (19.3) | 36 (21.7) | 0.113 |
Q8: When discussing the Patient Autonomy Act, which of the following issues is not often compared with? | 82 (49.4) | 85 (51.2) | <0.001* |
*: Indicates a statistically significant difference (p < 0.05)