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Evidence-based strategies to facilitate older people’s engagement in advance care planning
Fresh Air, Fresh Thinking: Conference Proceedings, pp.39-39
AAG Conference, 57th (Hobart, Australia, 12/11/2024–15/11/2024)
17/02/2025
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Abstract
Background: Advance care planning (ACP) is underutilised. This cross-sectional study explores associations among health literacy, depression, anxiety, decisional conflict, and ACP engagement and the mediating role of the decisional conflict in these associations.
Methods: The study included 262 -dwelling older adults in Australia. Data were collected using the Health Literacy Screening Questions (Chew et al., 2004), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (Zigmond & Snaith, 1983), Decisional Conflict Scale (O'Connor, 1995), and ACP Engagement Survey (Sudore, Heyland, et al., 2017). General
linear modelling was used for data analysis.
Results: Anxiety and decisional conflict were directly associated with ACP engagement even after controlling for potential confounders. Decisional conflict partially mediated the association between anxiety and ACP engagement.
Conclusion: Increased anxiety and decisional conflict could reduce ACP engagement, even among communitydwelling older adults with higher levels of education and health literacy.
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- Title
- Evidence-based strategies to facilitate older people’s engagement in advance care planning
- Creators
- Hanh Dao - The University of QueenslandTracy Comans - The University of QueenslandMichelle Hilgeman - Tuscaloosa Veterans Affairs Medical Center (USA)Elizabeth Halcomb - University of WollongongCraig Sinclair - University of New South Wales (Australia, Sydney)
- Publication Details
- Fresh Air, Fresh Thinking: Conference Proceedings, pp.39-39
- Conference
- AAG Conference, 57th (Hobart, Australia, 12/11/2024–15/11/2024)
- Publisher
- AAG
- Identifiers
- 991013353171802368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Abstract