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Table 2 Decision regret score according to patient, physician and consultation characteristics

From: More primary care patients regret health decisions if they experienced decisional conflict in the consultation: a secondary analysis of a multicenter descriptive study

 

Decision Regret Score

Characteristics

n a

0

n (%)

5–25

n (%)

≥30

n (%)

P-value

Patients

 Gender

  Men

79

28 (35)

41 (52)

10 (13)

0.23b

  Women

179

84 (47)

76 (42)

19 (11)

 Age (years)

  Mean ± SD

254

48.1 ± 16.2

50.5 ± 17.8

55.0 ± 22.1

0.21c

  Median

 

48.1

50.3

59.2

  Age <40

87

41 (47)

37 (43)

9 (10)

0.16b

  40–60

83

40 (48)

37 (45)

6 (7)

  Age >60

84

28 (33)

42 (50)

14 (17)

 Marital status

  Single/Separated/Widowed

96

38 (39)

42 (44)

16 (17)

0.10b

  Married/Common law

162

74 (46)

75 (46)

13 (8)

 Education

  Secondary/none

93

32 (34)

47 (51)

14 (15)

0.11b

  College/professional

81

35 (43)

37 (46)

9 (11)

  University

81

44 (55)

31 (38)

6 (7)

 Decisional conflictd

  Mean ± SD

251

0 ± 0

14.9 ± 7.5

43.8 ± 13.9

0.0001c

  Median

 

0

15

40

  DCS <25

201

97 (48)

87 (43)

17 (9)

0.0007b

  DCS ≥25

50

11 (22)

28 (56)

11 (22)

 Physical healthe

  Mean ± SD

258

45.6 ± 11.8

44.5 ± 12.4

42.8 ± 10.7

0.38c

  Median

 

49.2

47.7

44.0

  Score ≤ 36

62

23 (37)

31 (50)

8 (13)

0.49b

  36< score ≤48

69

31 (45)

28 (41)

10 (14)

  48< score ≤54

63

28 (44)

27 (43)

8 (13)

  Score >54

64

30 (47)

31 (48)

3 (5)

 Mental healthe

  Mean ± SD

258

51.1 ± 11.0

48.8 ± 11.0

49.3 ± 10.0

0.07c

  Median

 

53.9

49.9

52.6

  Score ≤ 43

63

22 (35)

34 (54)

7 (11)

0.28b

  43< score ≤51

67

26 (39)

34 (51)

7 (10)

  51< score ≤58

65

30 (46)

25 (39)

10 (15)

  Score >58

63

34 (54)

24 (38)

5 (8)

Physicians

 Gender

  Men

95

33 (35)

51 (54)

11 (11)

0.09b

  Women

163

79 (48)

66 (41)

18 (11)

 Age (years)

  Mean ± SD

256

37.8 ± 11.3

38.1 ± 10.4

37.6 ± 9.8

0.85c

  Median

 

34.3

35.2

38.2

  Age <31

89

39 (44)

41 (46)

9 (10)

0.98b

  31–41

80

33 (41)

37 (46)

10 (13)

  Age ≥41

87

38 (44)

39 (45)

10 (11)

Professional status

  Residents

144

58 (40)

65 (45)

21 (15)

0.14b

  Teachers

114

54 (47)

52 (46)

8 (7)

Consultation

 Type of decision

  Treatment

85

41 (48)

35 (41)

9 (11)

0.80b

  Diagnostic

57

23 (40)

26 (46)

8 (14)

  Follow-up

115

48 (42)

55 (48)

12 (10)

 Length (min)

  Mean ± SD

258

31.2 ± 16.2

29.4 ± 15.6

30.0 ± 17.4

0.56c

  Median

 

29.4

27.0

28.2

  ≤21 min

84

33 (39)

43 (51)

8 (10)

0.33b

  21–34 min

87

37 (43)

36 (41)

14 (16)

  >34 min

87

42 (48)

38 (44)

7 (8)

 OPTION-3rd observer

  Mean ± SD

258

24.6 ± 8.3

24.8 ± 8.5

25.0 ± 10.8

0.98c

  Median

 

24.4

25.0

25.0

  Score ≤25

128

57 (45)

57 (45)

14 (10)

0.94b

  Score >25

130

55 (42)

60 (46)

15 (12)

  1. n Number of participants
  2. SD Standard deviation
  3. aMissing data: 4 and 3 for patients’ age and education, respectively; 2 for physicians’ age, 1 for nature of decision and 7 for DCS
  4. bChi-square or Fisher exact test
  5. cKruskal-Wallis test
  6. dThe decisional conflict score (DCS) was dichotomised to the clinically significant cut-off (see Methods)
  7. ePhysical and Mental Health Composite Scores (PCS & MCS) of quality of life scale (score range 0–100, with higher scores indicating greater health)
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