Table 2.
Decision‐making preferences, self‐reported outcome and enablement scores: patients with established and new problems needing treatment
| General patient preferences | n = 152 n (%)† | Doctor made decision | PEI mean score | Decision was shared | PEI mean score | I made decision | PEI mean score | No decision made | PEI mean score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||||||
| I prefer decisions to be made by the doctor | 53 (35) | 34 | 64.1 | 4.26 | 12 | 22.6 | 1.75 | 4 | 7.5 | 4.26 | 3 | 5.8 | 4.33 |
| I prefer to share decisions with the doctor | 72 (47) | 20 | 27.8 | 6.05 | 38 | 52.8 | 4.26 | 5 | 6.9 | 6.20 | 9 | 12.5 | 2.22 |
| I prefer to make my own decisions | 27 (18) | 10 | 37.0 | 4.90 | 4 | 14.8 | 5.25 | 11 | 40.8 | 5.00 | 2 | 7.4 | 2.00 |
†
Figures in brackets represent the number of patients in each of the three preference groups as a percentage of the total sample.
All other percentages are based on the total n for each group (not the sample as a whole).