Affective science and avoidant end-of-life communication: Can the science of emotion help physicians talk with their patients about the end of life?

Abstract:

:Despite believing end-of-life (EOL) discussions with patients are important, doctors often do not have them. Multiple factors contribute to this shortfall, which interventions including reimbursement changes and communication skills training have not significantly improved to date. One commonly cited but under-researched reason for physician avoidance of EOL discussion is emotional difficulty. High occupational demand for frequent difficult discussions may overload physicians' normal emotional functioning, leading to avoidance or failure. We propose that cognitive, behavioral, and neuroscience evidence from affective science may offer helpful insights into this problem. Data from other populations show that strong emotion impairs cognitive performance and multiple demands can overload cognitive resources. We discuss several affective processes that may apply to physicians attempting EOL discussions. We then discuss selected interventions that have been shown to modify some of these processes and associated behavioral outcomes. Evidence for change in behavioral outcomes of interest includes performance and mood enhancement in healthy populations. We suggest that such mechanistically-targeted interventions may be hypothesized to help decrease physician avoidance of EOL discussion. Physicians may be motivated to adopt such interventions in order to enhance normal emotional functioning to meet supra-normal occupational demand. We propose this as a promising area of future study.

journal_name

Patient Educ Couns

authors

Soodalter JA,Siegle GJ,Klein-Fedyshin M,Arnold R,Schenker Y

doi

10.1016/j.pec.2017.12.008

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-05-01 00:00:00

pages

960-967

issue

5

eissn

0738-3991

issn

1873-5134

pii

S0738-3991(17)30654-7

journal_volume

101

pub_type

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