Information needs and decision making preferences of husbands of women with breast cancer
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1998-04-01T19:04:34Z
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Dozenko, Brenda Jean
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To date, there has been minimal research that has measured husbands' information needs when their wives have recently undergone surgery for breast cancer. In addition, there has been no research that has examined husbands' surgical treatment decisional role preferences and the relationship between husbands' informational needs and their surgical treatment decisional role preferences when their wives have recently undergone surgery for breast cancer. The purposes of this two phase descriptive survey were: to test a version of the Control Preferences Scale modified to index husbands' surgical treatment decisional role preferences (CPS-H) when their wives had recently undergone surgery for breast cancer; to describe husbands' informational needs and their decisional role preferences when their wives had recently undergone surgery for breast cancer, and to examine the relationship between husbands' information needs and decisional role preferences. Hanks' Structure of Knowledge Model of Family Decision Making was applied as the conceptual framework of this study. In the first phase of the study, six husbands assessed the CPS-H for clarity and apparent internal consistency. In the second phase of the study, a convenience sample of 70 husbands completed the Family Inventory of Needs-Husbands (FIN-H), the CPS-H, and a sociodemographic questionnaire. An open-ended interview was conducted with the participants to facilitate expression of concerns related to information needs and surgical treatment decision making. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)