Pierce P F
Division of Acute, Critical and Long-Term Care Programs, School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Nurs Res. 1993 Jan-Feb;42(1):22-8.
The purposes of this study were to describe the unaided decision-making process of women facing treatment for early stage breast cancer and to provide the empirical grounding to develop a conceptual framework for more structured research. A convenience sample of 48 women completed an open-ended interview while they were making a decision. A qualitative analysis of these interviews identified five empirical indicators of decision behavior: (a) perceived salience of alternatives, (b) decision conflict, (c) information seeking, (d) risk awareness, and (e) deliberation. The configurations of these indicators discriminated the decision maker into one of three empirically derived groups. In order of complexity, these are termed Deferrer, Delayer, and Deliberator.
本研究的目的是描述早期乳腺癌女性患者在未经辅助的情况下的决策过程，并为构建一个更具结构化研究的概念框架提供实证依据。48名女性的便利样本在做出决策时完成了一次开放式访谈。对这些访谈进行的定性分析确定了决策行为的五个实证指标：(a) 替代方案的感知显著性，(b) 决策冲突，(c) 信息寻求，(d) 风险意识，以及 (e) 审议。这些指标的组合将决策者分为三个基于实证得出的群体之一。按复杂程度排序，这些群体分别被称为拖延者、延迟者和审议者。
