Contextual factors of shared decision making with their number of votes.
| Contextual Factors | No. Votes (10 per person) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Patient Research Partners, N = 5 (weighted opinion)* | Health Professionals / Researchers, N = 21 (weighted opinion)* | Total, N = 26 (weighted opinion)* | |
| Establishing partnership and mutual respect | 4 (8%) | 28 (13%) | 32 (12%) |
| General domain | 1 (2%) | 4 (2%) | 5 (2%) |
| Health professionals’ empathy and desire to let patients speak (by using open-ended questions, empathetic non-verbal language) | 2 (4%) | 22 (10%) | 24 (9%) |
| No time pressure | 1 (2%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (0%) |
| Patients’ ability to speak their mind | 0 (0%) | 2 (1%) | 2 (1%) |
| Considering patient sociodemographic context and social support | 4 (8%) | 4 (2%) | 8 (3%) |
| Health professional’s assertiveness | 1 (2%) | 6 (3%) | 7 (3%) |
| Educational material and decision aids | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| Total | 9 (18%) | 38 (18%) | 47 (18%) |
↵* Analyzed as the number of votes/(participants × 10)