Table 1.
Characteristics of data sets
| Data set |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | iODSF26 | GENETIC27 | DECISION+25 | EXACKTE228 | DECISION+229 |
| Year of data collection | 2003 | 2007 | 2007 | 2009 | 2010 |
| Study type | Before and after trial | Cross-sectional survey | Cluster randomised trial | Cross-sectional survey | Cluster randomised trial |
| Main objective of study | To assess the impact of implementing the ODSF on correspondences between patients' and physicians’ decisional conflict scores | To assess the willingness of women and their family physicians to engage in shared decision-making about prenatal Down syndrome screening and the factors that might influence this willingness | To develop, adapt and validate a shared decision-making training programme and estimate its impact on the decision of family physicians and their patients about whether to use antibiotics for ARIs | To assess the psychometric properties of dyadic measures for shared decision-making research | To evaluate the effect of a shared decision-making training programme on decisions of family physicians and their patients about whether to use antibiotics for ARIs |
| Clinical setting | 5 FPTUs in the Québec City area | 3 FPTUs in the Québec City area | 4 family medicine groups in the Québec City area | 17 primary care clinics in the Québec City area and in Ontario | 9 FPTUs in the province of Québec |
| Type of decision | Various other primary care decisions | To do a prenatal test or not | To take antibiotics or not for treating ARIs | Various other primary care decisions | To take antibiotics or not for treating ARIs |
| Total participants (N) | 370 | 130 | 225 | 198 | 415 |
| Women; n (%) | 234 (63) | 130 (100) | 154 (68) | 131 (66) | 277 (67) |
| Aged ≥45 years; n (%) | 209 (56) | 0 (0) | 60 (27) | 117 (59) | 164 (40) |
| Living by themselves; n (%) | 119 (32) | 1 (1) | 39 (17) | 42 (21) | 74 (18) |
| Professional status; n (%) | |||||
| Employed full time or part-time | 185 (50) | 105 (81) | 176 (78) | 109 (55) | 318 (77) |
| Unemployed | 69 (19) | 25 (19) | 36 (16) | 30 (15) | 65 (16) |
| Retired | 116 (31) | 0 (0) | 13 (6) | 59 (30) | 32 (7) |
| Household income ≥$60 000; n (%) | 97 (26) | 62 (48) | 87 (39) | 24 (12) | 194 (47) |
| Available variables | Age, sex, employment status, education, annual income, household size, first encounter with that doctor | Age, sex, employment status, education, annual income, household size | Age, sex, employment status, education, annual income, household size, first encounter with that doctor, patient preference for involvement in decision-making, self-reported health status, whether making a decision for a child, whether patient receives a prescription, whether patient has a private drug insurance plan | Age, sex, employment status, education, annual income, household size, marital status, average annual frequency of physician visits, first encounter with that doctor, patient is alone or accompanied | Age, sex, employment status, education, annual income, household size, first encounter with that doctor, patient preference for involvement in decision-making, self-reported health status, whether making a decision for a child, whether patient receives a prescription, whether patient has a private drug insurance plan |
ARIs, acute respiratory infections; FPTU, family practice teaching unit; ODSF, Ottawa Decision Support Framework.