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Parents’ understanding of long-term quality of life (QOL) impacts tracheostomy decisions. Providing narratives about a child’s or family’s QOL can influence these critical choices.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical decision-making
  • Pediatric healthcare
  • Quality of Life research

Background:

  • Parents making goals-of-care tracheostomy decisions may struggle to forecast long-term child and family quality of life (QOL).
  • Accurate forecasting is crucial for informed decision-making in complex pediatric care scenarios.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how parents' perceptions of long-term child and family QOL influence their decisions regarding tracheostomy for a child.
  • To examine the impact of QOL narratives on parental decision-making and forecasting accuracy.

Main Methods:

  • 1966 US adult participants were recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk.
  • Participants were randomized to read vignettes with varying narratives (child QOL, family QOL, both, or none) concerning a hypothetical infant's tracheostomy decision.
  • Data collected included tracheostomy decisions, QOL forecasting, values, social norms, and demographics.

Main Results:

  • Participants exposed to child QOL narratives (alone or with family QOL) were significantly less likely to choose tracheostomy compared to the control group (OR=0.38, P<0.001 and OR=0.25, P<0.001, respectively).
  • Family QOL narratives showed a non-significant trend towards reduced tracheostomy choices (OR=0.70, P=0.11).
  • Narratives increased pessimistic forecasting, which correlated with decreased interest in tracheostomy.

Conclusions:

  • Narratives detailing long-term tracheostomy implications can influence parental forecasting and decisions.
  • Narrative-based interventions show promise for improving decision-making in situations prone to forecasting errors.