Table 2.

Physician agreement with statements describing the process of informing patients and families about what dementia looks like at the time of diagnosis (n [%])

Statement		n *	Strongly disagree	Moderately disagree	Neither agree nor disagree	Moderately agree	Strongly agree	Don’t know
a	Facilitates later decision-making because families are better prepared	132	3 [2.3]	11 [8.3]	27 [20.5]	60 [45.5]	31 [23.5]	0
b	Will increase requests for inappropriately high levels of pain relieving medication	131	48 [36.1]	53 [39.8]	22 [16.5]	7 [5.3]	1 [0.8]	2 [1.5]
c	Will increase requests for hastening death	131	49 [36.8]	46 [34.6]	29 [21.8]	7 [5.3]	0	2 [1.5]
d	Will increase patients’ and families’ anxiety unnecessarily	133	11 [8.3]	26 [19.5]	21 [15.8]	46 [34.6]	29 [21.8]	0
e	Is not needed because families will witness patient’s decline later and this will sufficiently facilitate decision-making	133	32 [24.1]	48 [36.1]	20 [15.0]	22 [16.5]	11 [8.3]	0
f	Is not necessary as most patients will not progress to severe dementia	132	37 [28.0]	55 [41.7]	24 [18.2]	15 [11.4]	1 [0.8]	0

*The number of responses refers to those giving some level of disagreement/agreement.