Respondents offered reasons for their preference of information source in the workplace.
Studies that focused on information seeking or information preferences instead of information needs were excluded.
The interviews explored women's experiences, expectations, decision-making preferences, sources of information and other resources for decision making, birth planning and pain-relief choices.
To conduct a pilot study into the comprehension and visualisation preferences of geographic information by public health practitioners (PHPs), particularly in the context of interactive, Internet-based atlases.
A better understanding about the prevalence and preferences of obtaining information about cancer might help to identify targeted individuals and design effective strategies for promoting cancer-preventive behaviours.
The variety of preferences for information provision and decision-making (including the involvement of family members), revealed in the findings, highlights the lack of an 'idealized' preference for older patients.
Achievement of preferences for information and involvement in decisions about care is measured using modified versions of these scales worded to reflect achievement of decision and information preferences.
40 Achievement of preferences for information and involvement in decisions about care are measured using modified versions of these scales worded to reflect achievement of decision and information preferences.
This indicates convergent validity and shows that, as in the original API, preferences for participation in decision making are independent of preferences for information.
Influences might include level of preference for information, existence of available treatment options, involvement in shared decision making, and decisions which are more values-based (i.e. where clinical equipoise exists) versus those that where there is a clearly superior treatment option.
