TY - JOUR
T1 - Patients’ health locus of control and preferences about the role that they want to play in the medical decision-making process
AU - Marton, Giulia
AU - Pizzoli, Silvia Francesca Maria
AU - Vergani, Laura
AU - Mazzocco, Ketti
AU - Monzani, Dario
AU - Bailo, Luca
AU - Pancani, Luca
AU - Pravettoni, Gabriella
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by the?Italian Ministry of Health with Ricerca Corrente and 5???1000 funds. GM, LV, and SFMP are PhD students within the European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Health locus of control (HLOC) may influence people’s behavior regarding their health as well as their desires to be involved in the medical decision-making. Our study aimed to examine HLOC’s relations with people’s control preferences about the medical decision-making. A total of 153 people filled out the self-administered version of the Control Preference Scale and the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale–form C. The most preferred role is the collaborative one. However, HLOC explained heterogeneity in people’s control preferences: lower scores in external HLOC were related to a greater preference for the active and the collaborative role. From the personalized medicine perspective, an accurate evaluation of the patient’s HLOC could help tailoring the decision-making process within the clinical context.
AB - Health locus of control (HLOC) may influence people’s behavior regarding their health as well as their desires to be involved in the medical decision-making. Our study aimed to examine HLOC’s relations with people’s control preferences about the medical decision-making. A total of 153 people filled out the self-administered version of the Control Preference Scale and the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale–form C. The most preferred role is the collaborative one. However, HLOC explained heterogeneity in people’s control preferences: lower scores in external HLOC were related to a greater preference for the active and the collaborative role. From the personalized medicine perspective, an accurate evaluation of the patient’s HLOC could help tailoring the decision-making process within the clinical context.
KW - control preferences
KW - Health locus of control
KW - medical decision-making
KW - shared decision-making
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U2 - 10.1080/13548506.2020.1748211
DO - 10.1080/13548506.2020.1748211
M3 - Article
C2 - 32323553
AN - SCOPUS:85083781518
VL - 26
SP - 260
EP - 266
JO - Psychology, Health and Medicine
JF - Psychology, Health and Medicine
SN - 1354-8506
IS - 2
ER -