Huei-Lan Chang|Fang Shan Li|Chiou Fen Lin
&lt;p&gt;Factors Influencing Implementation Of Shared Medical Decision Making In Patients With Cancer&lt;/p&gt;
National Taiwan University Hospital|National Taiwan University Hospital|Taipei Medical University|Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital
shared decision making promotes patient participation medical decisions study aims explore decisionmaking situation influencing factors patients cancera crosssectional descriptive study conducted patient cancers regional teaching hospitals northern taiwan using shortform mandarin health literacy scale smhls shared decision making questionnaire sdmq9 total 120 cases collected january 15 april 30 2018overall health literacy patients cancer 8652 degree shared decision making 8963 higher education level indicated better health literacy p0001 health literacy significantly correlated shared decision making r0258 p0004 increasing education level one grade elevated health literacy 0623 expanding health knowledge one source increased health literacy 0307 points one point increase health literacy enhanced shared decision making 0128 points using path analysis found education level affects health literacy turn influences shared decision makingimproving health literacy indispensable promote patient participation shared decision making highly professional medical field education level directly affects health literacy therefore future providing diseasematching health education crucial patients lower education levels enhance health literacy health literacy directly affects shared decision making therefore active assistance achieving patient health literacy crucial implement shared decision making