Power asymmetry and embarrassment in shared decision-making: predicting participation preference and decisional conflict

Table 4 Descriptive statistics of primary variables in urological and non-clinical sample and results of sample comparisons

	Urological sample n = 107		Non-clinical sample n = 250		Sample comparisons
	M	SD	M	SD	t	df	p	Cohen’s d
PA-ME Score^a	34.4	11.3	40.4	13.5	4.34	236.9	< 0.001	0.47
EmMed Score^a	16.6	11.9	37.0	17.8	12.68	290.7	< 0.001	1.26
API^b	46.6	25.9	-	-	-	-	-	-
API-Uro^c	38.5	13.3	-	-	-	-	-	-
DCS^d	12.1	11.3	-	-	-	-	-	-
	n	%
significant decisional conflict^e	23	21.5	-	-

Note. API, API-Uro, and DCS were assessed in the urological sample only. Diverging cell counts from the sample n are due to pairwise exclusion of missing values. Welch’s two-sample t-test was conducted to compare power asymmetry and embarrassment between samples
M = Mean. SD = Standard Deviation
^a Scores min-max-normalized, range = [0;100]
^b Participation preference. n = 105
^c Participation preference regarding urological care. n = 91
^d Decisional conflict. n = 94
^e Threshold: decisional conflict score ≥ 25

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