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Table 2 Correlation between different patient- and consultation-specific variables and the OPTION scale (explicit shared decision making) and the SDM-Q-9 (implicit shared decision making)

From: Shared decision making in pharmacotherapy decisions, perceived by patients with bipolar disorder

Variable

OPTION

SDM-Q-9

R**

p

R

p

Duration of consultation

0.39

0.00*

0.14

0.25

Number of clinical admissions

− 0.20

0.11

− 0.25

0.046*

Decision Self-Efficacy Scale

− 0.07

0.59

0.52

0.00*

Duration of total treatment

− 0.15

0.19

− 0.09

0.45

OPTION

0.08

0.51

  1. Statistically significant results are in italics
  2. * Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level
  3. ** R = Pearson correlation