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Positive attitudes to advance care planning – a Norwegian general population survey
BACKGROUND: Authorities recommend advance care planning and public acceptance of it is a prerequisite for widespread implementation. Therefore, we did the first study of the Norwegian public with an aim of getting knowledge on their attitudes to issues related to advance care planning. METHODS: An e...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8327435/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34334131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06773-x |
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author | Sævareid, Trygve Johannes L. Pedersen, Reidar Magelssen, Morten |
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description | BACKGROUND: Authorities recommend advance care planning and public acceptance of it is a prerequisite for widespread implementation. Therefore, we did the first study of the Norwegian public with an aim of getting knowledge on their attitudes to issues related to advance care planning. METHODS: An electronic survey to a nationally representative web panel of Norwegian adults. RESULTS: From 1035 complete responses (response rate 40.7%), we found that more than nine out of ten of the general public wanted to participate in advance care planning, believed it to be useful for many, and wanted to make important healthcare decisions themselves. Almost nine out of ten wanted to be accompanied by next of kin during advance care planning. Most (69%) wanted health care personnel to initiate advance care planning and preferred it to be timed to serious illness with limited lifetime (68%). Only about 9% stated that health care personnel should have the final say in healthcare decisions in serious illness. CONCLUSIONS: Developing and implementing advance care planning as a public health initiative seems warranted based on the results of this study. Patient perspectives should be promoted in decision-making processes. Nevertheless, training of health care personnel should emphasise voluntariness and an individual approach to initiating, timing and conducting advance care planning because of individual variations. |
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spelling | pubmed-83274352021-08-03 Positive attitudes to advance care planning – a Norwegian general population survey Sævareid, Trygve Johannes L. Pedersen, Reidar Magelssen, Morten BMC Health Serv Res Research BACKGROUND: Authorities recommend advance care planning and public acceptance of it is a prerequisite for widespread implementation. Therefore, we did the first study of the Norwegian public with an aim of getting knowledge on their attitudes to issues related to advance care planning. METHODS: An electronic survey to a nationally representative web panel of Norwegian adults. RESULTS: From 1035 complete responses (response rate 40.7%), we found that more than nine out of ten of the general public wanted to participate in advance care planning, believed it to be useful for many, and wanted to make important healthcare decisions themselves. Almost nine out of ten wanted to be accompanied by next of kin during advance care planning. Most (69%) wanted health care personnel to initiate advance care planning and preferred it to be timed to serious illness with limited lifetime (68%). Only about 9% stated that health care personnel should have the final say in healthcare decisions in serious illness. CONCLUSIONS: Developing and implementing advance care planning as a public health initiative seems warranted based on the results of this study. Patient perspectives should be promoted in decision-making processes. Nevertheless, training of health care personnel should emphasise voluntariness and an individual approach to initiating, timing and conducting advance care planning because of individual variations. BioMed Central 2021-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8327435/ /pubmed/34334131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06773-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Sævareid, Trygve Johannes L. Pedersen, Reidar Magelssen, Morten Positive attitudes to advance care planning – a Norwegian general population survey |
title | Positive attitudes to advance care planning – a Norwegian general population survey |
title_full | Positive attitudes to advance care planning – a Norwegian general population survey |
title_fullStr | Positive attitudes to advance care planning – a Norwegian general population survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Positive attitudes to advance care planning – a Norwegian general population survey |
title_short | Positive attitudes to advance care planning – a Norwegian general population survey |
title_sort | positive attitudes to advance care planning – a norwegian general population survey |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8327435/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34334131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06773-x |
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