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ID 114039
Title Alternative
Perspectives on enteral tube feeding in Japan
Author
Kawahito, Keisuke Yoshinogawa Medical Center
Miyatake, Akiko Naruto Yamakami Hospital
Kondo, Keisuke Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital
Yuasa, Shino Tokushima Prefectural Central Hospital
Keywords
surrogate decision making
enteral tube feeding
questionnaire survey
visual analogue scale
Content Type
Journal Article
Description
[Introduction] The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in the preference of enteral tube feeding between elderly inhabitants of Mugi town, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, and their parents in various physical conditions. [Methods] This population-based questionnaire survey studied 300 randomly selected participants aged 65–80 years. Respondents were to consider a situation where eating was difficult, and were questioned on their desire for tube feeding, using a visual analogue scale (VAS) ranging from “do not want tube feeding (0)” to “want tube feeding (100).” [Results] Valid responses of 103 (34.4%) participants were analyzed. Under conditions of being “healthy,” “bedridden,” “with dementia,” and “bedridden and with dementia,” the median (IQR) of the VAS values for the desire for tube feeding were 31.8 (3.3 to 83.8), 19.3 (2.4 to 52.3), 5.2 (0.7 to 18.9), 4.0 (0.3 to 15.2) for respondents and 55.2 (11.6 to 92.2), 48.7 (5.5 to 85.5), 9.0 (1.2 to 46.8), 5.1 (0.1 to 36.5) for parents, respectively. The VAS values for the parents were significantly higher (p=0.001, 0.002, 0.001, and 0.01, respectively for the four conditions described) for the same items. [Conclusion] Surrogate decisions made by family members often differ from what the patients would have desired.
Journal Title
The Journal of Medical Investigation
ISSN
13496867
13431420
NCID
AA12022913
AA11166929
Publisher
Tokushima University Faculty of Medicine
Volume
66
Issue
3-4
Start Page
258
End Page
263
Sort Key
258
Published Date
2019-08
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language
eng
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Medical Sciences
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