Patterns of self-care decision-making and associated factors : A cross-sectional observational study

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OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to identify for the first time patterns of self-care decision-making (i.e. the extent to which participants viewed contextual factors influencing decisions about symptoms) and associated factors among community-dwelling adults with chronic illness.

METHODS: This was a secondary analysis of data collected during the development and psychometric evaluation of the 27-item Self-Care Decisions Inventory that is based on Naturalistic Decision-Making (n = 430, average age = 54.9 ± 16.2 years, 70.2 % female, 87.0 % Caucasian, average number of chronic conditions = 3.6 ± 2.8). Latent class mixture modeling was used to identify patterns among contextual factors that influence self-care decision-making under the domains of external, urgency, uncertainty, cognitive/affective, waiting/cue competition, and concealment. Multivariate multinomial regression was used to identify additional socio-demographic, clinical, and self-care behavior factors that were different across the patterns of self-care decision-making.

RESULTS: Three patterns of self-care decision-making were identified in a cohort of 430 adults. A 'maintainers' pattern (48.1 %) consisted of adults with limited contextual influences on self-care decision-making except for urgency. A 'highly uncertain' pattern (23.0 %) consisted of adults whose self-care decision-making was largely driven by uncertainty about the cause or meaning of the symptom. A 'distressed concealers' pattern (28.8 %) consisted of adults whose self-care decision-making was highly influenced by external factors, cognitive/affective factors and concealment. Age, education, financial security and specific symptoms were significantly different across the three patterns in multivariate models.

CONCLUSION: Adults living with chronic illness vary in the extent to which contextual factors influence decisions they make about symptoms, and would therefore benefit from different interventions.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:150

Enthalten in:

International journal of nursing studies - 150(2024) vom: 16. Jan., Seite 104665

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lee, Christopher S [VerfasserIn]
Freedland, Kenneth E [VerfasserIn]
Jaarsma, Tiny [VerfasserIn]
Strömberg, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Vellone, Ercole [VerfasserIn]
Page, Shayleigh Dickson [VerfasserIn]
Westland, Heleen [VerfasserIn]
Pettersson, Sara [VerfasserIn]
van Rijn, Michelle [VerfasserIn]
Aryal, Subhash [VerfasserIn]
Belfiglio, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Wiebe, Douglas [VerfasserIn]
Riegel, Barbara [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Decision-making
Journal Article
Observational Study
Self-care
Symptoms

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Date Completed 22.01.2024

Date Revised 22.01.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2023.104665

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365939587