Table 2.
Clinician Behaviors to Foster Choice Awareness
| Fostering choice awareness behavior | Total |
Care as usual |
Conversation aid |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. (%) | OPTION-12 scale score (mean, 95% CI) | No. (%) | OPTION-12 scale score (mean, 95% CI) | No. (%) | OPTION-12 scale score (mean, 95% CI) | |
| Choice awareness not fostered | 47 | 28 | 19 | |||
| 1. The clinician does not create choice awareness; rather, the clinician informs on the next step in management without introducing other options for consideration | 34 (72) | 19.4 (12.2-26.6) | 19 (68) | 17.4 (7.4-27.3) | 15 (79) | 21.9 (10.4-33.5) |
| 2. The clinician does not create choice awareness; rather, the clinician makes a recommendation that implies the existence of alternatives but without explicitly mentioning these | 13 (28) | 15.0 (9.3-20.7) | 9 (32) | 14.5 (6.9-22.1) | 4 (21) | 16.1 (0.5-31.8) |
| Choice awareness fostered | 53 | 22 | 31 | |||
| 3. The clinician creates choice awareness by listing relevant options followed by recommending one of these to the patient | 15 (28) | 30.9 (23.0-38.8) | 9 (41) | 27.8 (16.6-38.9) | 6 (19) | 35.6 (21.0-50.2) |
| 4. The clinician creates choice awareness by listing relevant options without recommending one of these to the patient | 38 (72) | 39.1 (32.6-45.5) | 13 (59) | 33.4 (22.6-44.2) | 25 (81) | 42.0 (33.6-50.4) |