From: Coaching and guidance with patient decision aids: A review of theoretical and empirical evidence
By… | Coaching / Guidance can… |
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Increasing critical reflection, anticipating and avoiding common pitfalls (e.g., anchoring, misconceptions, etc.) that can undermine effective decision making; Taking someone through the steps of decision making; Helping patients become more informed by providing information, tailoring information, brainstorming and answering questions, stimulating patients to ask questions, and/or verifying understanding; Clarifying patients’ values by facilitating reflection, completing values clarification exercises, and/or sharing others’ experiences; and/or Building self-efficacy in decision making | Improve patients’ deliberation skills. |
Helping patients prepare questions and identify concerns; Teaching skills for raising difficult subjects; Facilitating patients’ communicative capacity in the process of decision making; and/or Providing a worksheet or list of questions to share with the practitioner | Enhance patients’ skills in communicating with their practitioner(s). |
Helping patients to anticipate and overcome barriers to implementing the desired option | Improve follow-through on the chosen option. |
Helping patients to improve their ability to use coping skills; and/or Helping patients to enhance their problem-solving skills | Reduce patients’ emotional distress. |