Harzheim, Laura ORCID: 0000-0002-9789-7023 (2024). Health Literacy and Shared Decision-Making in the Context of Predictive Medicine - a Mixed Methods Study on the Perspectives of Patients and Healthcare Professionals. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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This dissertation investigates how health literacy and shared decision-making can be promoted in the context of predictive medicine. The ongoing medical-technical progress allows for the prediction of individual disease risks and the detection of early disease stadia at an ever earlier stage. People confronted with an increased disease risk as well as healthcare professionals who consult patients in predictive procedures are challenged to communicate and negotiate increasingly complex disease risk information and to make preventive decisions upon disease probabilities. However, relevant aspects with respect to a subjectively health literate decision-making in the context of predictive medicine from the perspective of people involved and affected have not yet been investigated. Using an inductive, qualitative study design, the present work explores risk perceptions and needs of people who participated in predictive procedures to determine their personal risk for developing a certain disease; it also examines experiences and concerns of healthcare professionals who consult and treat advice seekers in predictive procedures with respect to preventive options. The results of this dissertation offer an empirically founded, conceptual broadening of health literacy and shared decision-making in predictive medicine: the two concepts are interwoven, communication with oneself and with others is central for the negotiation of predictive and/or preventive measures. A three-pillared approach derived from this work’s findings is to serve the promotion of subjective health literacy and shared decision-making in predictive medicine. This thesis discusses its results and implications for predictive practice in the light of previous research and relevant theoretical concepts. Central aspects addressed are role understandings and requirements of ‘persons at risk’ as well as healthcare professionals, the meaning of subjectivity and normative potentials of predictive procedures for the understanding of and dealing with health, disease, and risk, and objectifiable versus subjective approaches of communicating and negotiating disease risk. For their operationalization, practical implications are constituted in the setting of (med.) education and training and include tools for the predictive practice as well as conceptual suggestions for healthcare organizations that provide predictive procedures.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-722260 | ||||||||||
Date: | 2024 | ||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Medicine | ||||||||||
Divisions: | CERES - Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health | ||||||||||
Subjects: | Social sciences Medical sciences Medicine |
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Date of oral exam: | 2 February 2024 | ||||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/72226 |
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