The impact of patient narratives on medical students’ perceptions of shared decision making: A randomized controlled trial

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Table 1. Perceptions of SDM

	Very unimportant			Very important
Perceived importance of SDM
In your own opinion, how important is a shared decision-making process in making medical decisions in the following medical situations?
Changing health behavior		▢ ▢	▢ ▢ ▢	▢ ▢
Taking medication		▢ ▢	▢ ▢ ▢	▢ ▢
Surgical interventions		▢ ▢	▢ ▢ ▢	▢ ▢
Coping with chronic diseases		▢ ▢	▢ ▢ ▢	▢ ▢
	Only the patient	Mostly the patient	Both patient and clinician equally	Mostly the physician	Only the physician
Attitude toward participation of IPD patients
When you think about treatment decisions for Parkinson disease, who do you think…
… should make decisions?	▢	▢	▢	▢	▢
… actually makes decisions?	▢	▢	▢	▢	▢
	Not important at all			Very important
Attitude toward SDM in situations where more than one treatment option exists
In cases where there is more than one treatment option, how important do you think the shared decision-making process is to patients?		▢ ▢	▢ ▢ ▢	▢ ▢

Table 2. Control preferences

The following statements describe different roles that a physician can have in medical decision situations. Please sort the statements into your preferred order. This means the role you as physician would most like to play in the first position and the role you would least like to play in the last position.
▢	My patient should make the decision alone. (1)
▢	My patient should make the decision, but take my opinion into account. (2)
▢	My patient and I should make the decision together. (3)
▢	In the end I should make the decision, but I should seriously consider my patient’s opinion beforehand. (4)
▢	I should make the decision alone. (5)

Figure 1. Flow diagram of study design