Advice, authority and autonomy in shared decision making in antenatal screening: the importance of context

Pilnick, Alison; Zayts, Olga

Abstract

Shared decision making has been widely advocated across many branches of healthcare, yet there is considerable debate over both its practical application and how it should be examined or assessed. More recent discussions of SDM have highlighted the important of context, both internal and external to the consultation, with a recognition that decisions cannot be understood in isolation. This paper uses conversation analysis (CA) to examine how decision making is enacted in the context of antenatal screening consultations in Hong Kong. Building on previous CA work (Collins et al 2005; Toerien et al 2013), we show that, whilst previously identified formats are used here to present the need for a decision, the overriding basis professionals suggest for actually making a decision in this context is the level of worry or concern a pregnant woman holds about potential fetal abnormality.

Citation

Pilnick, A., & Zayts, O. (in press). Advice, authority and autonomy in shared decision making in antenatal screening: the importance of context. Sociology of Health and Illness, 38(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12346

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 1, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Oct 5, 2016
• Deposit Date: Mar 14, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 5, 2016
• Journal: Sociology of Health and Illness
• Print ISSN: 0141-9889
• Electronic ISSN: 1467-9566
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 3
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12346
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/824624
• Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.12346/abstract;jsessionid=2746B0538AB00C8531D43AAB94174372.f03t01
• Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Pilnick, A. and Zayts, O. (2016), Advice, authority and autonomy in shared decision-making in antenatal screening: the importance of context. Sociology of Health & Illness, 38: 343–359. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12346, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.12346/abstract;jsessionid=2746B0538AB00C8531D43AAB94174372.f03t01. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
• Contract Date: Mar 14, 2016