Taiwanese Occupational Therapists’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior of Shared Decision-Making: A Preliminary Study

• Main Authors: Yang-Yang Tsai, 蔡揚揚
• Other Authors: I-Ping Hsueh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/wm23y2

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 職能治療研究所 === 107 === Background: Shared decision-making (SDM) is one kind of medical decision-making model that emphasizes the cooperation between clients and clinicians during the medical decision-making process. Although Taiwanese medical society has tried to promote SDM and to integrate SDM into clinical practice, the evidence-based research on the status of SDM behavior and its antecedents (knowledge and attitudes) of Taiwanese medical personnel is still quite lacking (including Taiwanese OTs). Understanding the SDM behavior and its antecedents of Taiwanese OTs should help improve the SDM behavior of Taiwanese OTs. However, the status of SDM behavior and its antecedents of Taiwanese OTs are unknown, which is unfavorable to improve the SDM behavior of Taiwanese OTs. Therefore, the survey of SDM behavior and its antecedents of Taiwanese OTs should have research needs and values. Purpose: There are two aims of this proposal. First, to overview Taiwanese OTs’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of SDM. Second, to recognize the correlations between Taiwanese OTs’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of SDM. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study using a convenience sampling design. This study surveys Taiwanese OTs about their knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of SDM by using the selfmade online questionnaire. The knowledge domain includes whether OTs know about SDM and the level of familiarity of SDM. The attitudes domain includes 8 factors, such as preferred role in decision-making, SDM concept agreement, clients’ inapplicability, clinical applicability, clinical impracticality, expected outcome, self-efficacy to implement SDM, and motivation to use SDM. Thereinto, this study use the Control Preferences Scale (CPS) to investigate Taiwanese OTs’ preferred role in decision-making, and use the questionnaire based on other scholars’ study to evaluate the other seven attitude factors. The behavior domain includes the utilization of decision-making model and the degree of SDM behavior. The utilization of decision-making model is investigated by modified version of Control Preferences Scale (CPSpost), and the degree of SDM behavior is surveyed by the Shared Decision-making Questionnaire-physician version (SDM-Q-Doc). Results: There are 198 Taiwanese OTs in this study samples. The proportion of utilizing SDM is about 46.0%, and the general degree of SDM behavior was 71.9. The proportion of preferring SDM is about 70.7%. The proportion of agreement with SDM concept is about 97%. The proportion of agreement with client’s applicability of SDM is about 67.6%. The proportion of agreement with clinical applicability of SDM is about 86.9%. The proportion of agreement with clinical practicality of SDM is about 78.3%. The proportion of positive expectation of SDM results is about 69.7%. The proportion of who has self-efficacy to implement SDM is about 89.9%. The proportion of who has motivation to learn/ adopt SDM is about 83.3%. The proportion of who have heard of SDM is about 65.2%, and the general level of SDM familiarity is about 4.2. With regards to the correlations, there is a moderate correlation between utilization of decision-making model and preference of decision-making role (σ=0.36), and there are low correlation between utilization of decision-making model and the other 7 attitude factors (σ=-0.16-0.24). The degree of SDM behavior are highly or moderately correlated with concept agreement (σ=0.58), clinical applicability (σ=0.50), self-efficacy (σ=0.67), clinical impracticality (σ=-0.49), expected outcome (σ=0.30) and motivation (σ=0.48), and are lowly or not correlated with clients’ inapplicability (σ=-0.15) and preference of decision-making role (σ=0.03). Whether OTs know about SDM is lowly correlated with motivation (σ=-0.13), and are not correlated with the other 7 attititude fators (σ=-0.06-0.03), utilization of decision-making model (σ=-0.01) and the degree of SDM behavior (σ=0.00). The level of familiarity of SDM are lowly correlated with self-efficacy (σ=0.15), motivation (σ=-0.11), utilization of decision-making model (σ=0.12) and the degree of SDM behavior (σ=0.12), and are not correlated with the other 6 attitude factors (σ=-0.09-0.07). Conclusion: The proportion of utilizing SDM in Taiwanese OTs is close to 50%. The general degree of SDM behabior is moderate. The general attitudes toward SDM are mostly positive. More than 60% of Taiwanese OTs has heard of SDM, and the general level of SDM familiarity is moderately low. With regards to the correlations, SDM behavior are lowly to highly correlated with SDM attitudes. SDM knowledge are lowly or not correlated with SDM attitudes and SDM behavior. This study investigates the SDM knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of Taiwanese OTs and examines the relevance of SDM knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. It should help clinical and researchers understand the current state of SDM knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of Taiwanese OTs and the key factors impact on SDM knowledge, attitudes and behavior. This study should be used as the empirical basis for future clinical teaching and SDM promotion. As there are still some limitations in this study, it is recommended continuing to investigate the relevant SDM-related issues based on the shortcomings of this study.