Parental Treatment Decision Making in Pediatric Oncology

To review progress and future plans for a research program about parents’ making treatment decisions for their children with cancer. Theoretical papers, review articles, and research reports. Three important questions need to be addressed to achieve the goal of supporting parents in treatment decisi...

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Published in:Seminars in oncology nursing 2005-05, Vol.21 (2), p.89-97
Main Authors: Stewart, Janet L., Pyke-Grimm, Kimberly A., Kelly, Katherine Patterson
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitude to Health
Child
Conflict (Psychology)
Decision Making
Educational Status
Health Priorities
Helping Behavior
Humans
Internal-External Control
Models, Nursing
Models, Psychological
Neoplasms - therapy
Nurse's Role
Nursing
Nursing Methodology Research
Oncology Nursing
Parents - education
Parents - psychology
Patient Selection
Pediatric Nursing
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Professional-Family Relations
Prognosis
Research Design
Social Support
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Summary:To review progress and future plans for a research program about parents’ making treatment decisions for their children with cancer. Theoretical papers, review articles, and research reports. Three important questions need to be addressed to achieve the goal of supporting parents in treatment decision making: 1) What factors predict a parent’s preferred role in decision making? 2) What are the critical outcomes from parental decision making that nurses could help to improve? 3) Is it role choice, actual role assumed, or congruence between preferred and actual role in decision making that predicts decision outcomes for the parents? Research-based responses to the remaining questions about parent treatment decision making will help nurses develop and test interventions designed to support parents in their decision making experiences.
ISSN:0749-2081
1878-3449
DOI:10.1016/j.soncn.2004.12.003