Table 2.

Perspectives of individuals living with mental illness and attitudes as predicted by their preferred alternative decision-makers

	Attitudes expressed by Ill individuals†		Preferred alternative decision maker predictions of attitudes expressed by ill individuals††
Importance of issue in relation to treatment decisions*	mean	sd	mean	sd	p-value
Issues related to the role of the ill individual
include ill person in decisions	8.5	(0.8)	8.6	(0.6)	0.76
ill person free to do what he wants	7.5	(2.3)	8.8	(0.4)	0.01**
ill person able to decide to continue or stop treatment	7.2	(2.7)	8.3	(1.0)	0.09
Overall mean***	7.7	(0.7)	8.6	(0.3)	0.15
Issues related to the role of family
include family members in decisions	7.3	(1.7)	7.8	(1.7)	0.13
family’s understanding of how the treatment will affect ill person	7.1	(2.5)	6.9	(2.4)	0.74
family having to take care of ill person during the treatment	6.9	(2.3)	6.6	(2.5)	0.60
what family recommends	6.8	(1.7)	7.1	(2.0)	0.15
family able to decide to continue or to stop treatment	6.0	(2.8)	6.9	(2.4)	0.13
Overall mean**	6.8	(0.5)	7.1	(0.5)	0.34

^†1 missing observation from ill individual;

^††1 missing observation from alternative decision maker

^*Items were rated on a 9-point scale ranging from “not at all important” = 1 to “very important” = 9

^**Statistically significant with α = 0.05

^***Accuracy of prediction by preferred alternative decision makers of people with mental illness regarding treatment decisions, as evidenced by lack of differences