Benjamin Djulbegovic, Jason W Beckstead, Shira Elqayam, Tea Reljic, Iztok Hozo, Ambuj Kumar, Janis Cannon-Bowers, Stephanie Taylor, Athanasios Tsalatsanis, Brandon Turner, Charles Paidas
Evaluation of Physicians' Cognitive Styles
Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making
patients capacity consent treatment cct prerequisite ethically sound informed consent psychotherapy macarthur competence assessment tool treatment maccatt reliable instrument assessing cct german version adapted psychotherapeutical context maccatpt investigate reliability possible influences age education prior experience psychotherapy cct mixed clinical sample n 108 patients indication psychotherapy recruited maccatpt administered trained psychologists took 20 min average rated administering psychologist independent rater reliability statistics investigated regression analyses conducted maccatpt scores sociodemographic variables sufficient moderate interrater reliability icc 080 internal consistency 080 found total sum score maccatpt scales understanding icc 079 077 reasoning icc 057 065 making choice icc 057 appreciation featured unacceptable interrater reliability icc 001 regression analyses indicated significant effects findings suggest maccatpt reliable tool assessing patients overall cct psychotherapy psychometric properties three scales good quality appreciation needs reanalysed patient samples lower motivation psychotherapy limited cct cct may suggested independent age education prior experience future research provide analyses focusing structural clinical validity multiple clinical samples