Current oncology
Latent Profiles of Decision Regret and Associated Factors Among Patients Undergoing Medium- and Long-Term Vascular Access Device Placement in Medical Oncology: A Cross-Sectional Study
By Guo X, Zheng B, Liu Q and 4 others.
Abstract
Background
Patients receiving medical oncology care must weigh multiple factors when selecting a vascular access device, such as a peripherally inserted central catheter, implantable port, or midline catheter. Decision regret is an important patient-reported outcome that may adversely affect treatment adherence and quality of life. From the perspectives of shared decision-making and precision nursing, identifying subgroups of patients with distinct patterns of decision regret may help provide individualized decision support.
Objective
To identify latent subgroups of decision regret among patients with cancer who underwent vascular access device placement, based on the three-dimensional structure of decision regret-process regret, option regret, and outcome regret-and to examine the associations of demographic characteristics, clinical factors, decisional conflict, and shared decision-making with subgroup membership.