Title

Factors Affecting Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions By Health Care Surrogates And Proxies: Assessing Benefits And Barriers

Keywords

HBM (Health Belief Model); Health care decision-making; Health care proxy; Health care surrogate; Life-sustaining treatment decisions

Abstract

Terri Schiavo's life and death placed international focus on social workers' need to better understand and serve health care surrogates and proxies making life-sustaining treatment decisions on behalf of medical patients. This study (N = 132) reports initial validation of a new measure, the Acceptance of Treatment Choice Inventory (ATCI), designed to evaluate benefits and barriers considered by health care surrogates and proxies prior to making a life-sustaining treatment decision about CPR, tube-feedings, dialysis, and ventilation. Affirming a two-factor model with acceptable reliability and preliminary construct validity, surrogates sought decision support and desired to represent patients' wishes adequately.

Publication Date

12-28-2009

Publication Title

Social Work in Health Care

Volume

48

Issue

4

Number of Pages

386-401

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/00981380802606680

Socpus ID

68849096857 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/68849096857

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