From economics to psychology : a quantitative study on medical decision-making in cancer patients /
Clinical observations and medical decision-making research on cancer patients suggested that many patients display a prominent preference for conservative treatment. Construal Level Theory (CLT) provided a perspective to understand these observations and served as a basis for us to conduct a quantit...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd,
2024.
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| Series: | SAGE research methods. Cases
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| Summary: | Clinical observations and medical decision-making research on cancer patients suggested that many patients display a prominent preference for conservative treatment. Construal Level Theory (CLT) provided a perspective to understand these observations and served as a basis for us to conduct a quantitative study to compare treatment choices of participants with and without a history of cancer diagnosis. In this case study, the reader will learn how we proposed research hypotheses based on the framework of CLT and designed four new medical decision tasks to accomplish our research objectives. We describe how we designed our experimental tasks in the absence of directly applicable research materials in existing medical decision-making research, by referring to decision-making in the field of economics. We also describe how we adopted a Choice Titration Procedure commonly used in economic research to administer our decision tasks to compensate for the shortcomings of the binary-choice design, thereby reducing outcome bias. We administered the four medical decision tasks we had designed in two samples of participants from different locations (Malaysia and China) to test and validate the new decision tasks, and we discussed the difficulties we encountered in the participant recruitment process due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, we discuss the possible bias of our results due to significant differences in demographic variables between the two participant groups and our method of participant assignment to decision task. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781529684926 1529684927 |