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To Share or Not to Share: Malaysian Healthcare Professionals' Views on Localized Prostate Cancer Treatment Decision Making Roles

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Title
To Share or Not to Share: Malaysian Healthcare Professionals' Views on Localized Prostate Cancer Treatment Decision Making Roles
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PLOS ONE, November 2015
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0142812
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Yew Kong Lee, Ping Yein Lee, Ai Theng Cheong, Chirk Jenn Ng, Khatijah Lim Abdullah, Teng Aik Ong, Azad Hassan Abdul Razack

Abstract

To explore the views of Malaysian healthcare professionals (HCPs) on stakeholders' decision making roles in localized prostate cancer (PCa) treatment. Qualitative interviews and focus groups were conducted with HCPs treating PCa. Data was analysed using a thematic approach. Four in-depth interviews and three focus group discussions were conducted between December 2012 and March 2013 using a topic guide. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analysed thematically. The participants comprised private urologists (n = 4), government urologists (n = 6), urology trainees (n = 6), government policy maker (n = 1) and oncologists (n = 3). HCP perceptions of the roles of the three parties involved (HCPs, patients, family) included: HCP as the main decision maker, HCP as a guide to patients' decision making, HCP as a facilitator to family involvement, patients as main decision maker and patient prefers HCP to decide. HCPs preferred to share the decision with patients due to equipoise between prostate treatment options. Family culture was important as family members often decided on the patient's treatment due to Malaysia's close-knit family culture. A range of decision making roles were reported by HCPs. It is thus important that stakeholder roles are clarified during PCa treatment decisions. HCPs need to cultivate an awareness of sociocultural norms and family dynamics when supporting non-Western patients in making decisions about PCa.

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Unknown 58 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 22%
Researcher 8 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 14%
Student > Postgraduate 3 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 5%
Other 17 29%
Unknown 6 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 24%
Social Sciences 6 10%
Psychology 2 3%
Unspecified 2 3%
Other 11 19%
Unknown 8 14%
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