{"title":"ICU成年癌症患者子女孝道、经济毒性与替代决策冲突的关系。","authors":"Xiaochun Wu MSN, RN , Yali Tang BSc , Jieling Chen PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2025.07.023","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><div>Filial piety, a Confucian cultural value, is deeply rooted in the parent-child relationship in Chinese and many other Asian cultures. Adult children often experience decisional conflict when making decisions for their critically ill parents. However, the quantitative relationship between filial piety and surrogate decisional conflict has yet to be explored.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To examine the associations of both financial toxicity and filial piety with surrogate decisional conflict among adult children of intensive care unit (ICU) patients with cancer.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A cross-sectional survey was conducted in an ICU of a tertiary hospital in Guangzhou, China. A sample of 180 adult children serving as surrogates for patients with cancer completed the survey after the patients had been admitted to the ICU for at least 4 days. The measures included the family version of the Decision Conflict Scale, the Filial Piety Values Scale for Children of Patients with Advanced Cancer, and the Comprehensive Scores for Financial Toxicity. Multiple regression analysis was conducted to examine factors associated with surrogate decisional conflict.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The adult children of ICU patients with cancer experienced a high level of surrogate decisional conflict. Surrogate decisional conflict was associated with more siblings (<span><math><mrow><mi>β</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0.183</mn><mo>,</mo><mspace></mspace><mi>p</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0.017</mn></mrow></math></span>), lower levels of filial piety (<span><math><mrow><mi>β</mi><mo>=</mo><mo>−</mo><mn>0.177</mn><mo>,</mo><mspace></mspace><mi>p</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0.018</mn></mrow></math></span>) and severe financial toxicity (<span><math><mrow><mi>β</mi><mo>=</mo><mo>−</mo><mn>0.159</mn><mo>,</mo><mspace></mspace><mi>p</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0.045</mn></mrow></math></span>).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Healthcare providers are recommended to provide culturally sensitive support for Chinese adult children making decisions for their parents with cancer in the ICU, such as offering strategies to mitigate the negative impact of financial toxicity and helping surrogates clarify their filial piety values to relieve decisional conflict.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16634,"journal":{"name":"Journal of pain and symptom management","volume":"70 5","pages":"Pages 437-446"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"The Association of Filial Piety and Financial Toxicity With Surrogate Decisional Conflict Among Adult Children of ICU Patients With Cancer\",\"authors\":\"Xiaochun Wu MSN, RN , Yali Tang BSc , Jieling Chen PhD\",\"doi\":\"10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2025.07.023\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<div><h3>Context</h3><div>Filial piety, a Confucian cultural value, is deeply rooted in the parent-child relationship in Chinese and many other Asian cultures. Adult children often experience decisional conflict when making decisions for their critically ill parents. However, the quantitative relationship between filial piety and surrogate decisional conflict has yet to be explored.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To examine the associations of both financial toxicity and filial piety with surrogate decisional conflict among adult children of intensive care unit (ICU) patients with cancer.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A cross-sectional survey was conducted in an ICU of a tertiary hospital in Guangzhou, China. A sample of 180 adult children serving as surrogates for patients with cancer completed the survey after the patients had been admitted to the ICU for at least 4 days. The measures included the family version of the Decision Conflict Scale, the Filial Piety Values Scale for Children of Patients with Advanced Cancer, and the Comprehensive Scores for Financial Toxicity. Multiple regression analysis was conducted to examine factors associated with surrogate decisional conflict.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The adult children of ICU patients with cancer experienced a high level of surrogate decisional conflict. Surrogate decisional conflict was associated with more siblings (<span><math><mrow><mi>β</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0.183</mn><mo>,</mo><mspace></mspace><mi>p</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0.017</mn></mrow></math></span>), lower levels of filial piety (<span><math><mrow><mi>β</mi><mo>=</mo><mo>−</mo><mn>0.177</mn><mo>,</mo><mspace></mspace><mi>p</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0.018</mn></mrow></math></span>) and severe financial toxicity (<span><math><mrow><mi>β</mi><mo>=</mo><mo>−</mo><mn>0.159</mn><mo>,</mo><mspace></mspace><mi>p</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0.045</mn></mrow></math></span>).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Healthcare providers are recommended to provide culturally sensitive support for Chinese adult children making decisions for their parents with cancer in the ICU, such as offering strategies to mitigate the negative impact of financial toxicity and helping surrogates clarify their filial piety values to relieve decisional conflict.</div></div>\",\"PeriodicalId\":16634,\"journal\":{\"name\":\"Journal of pain and symptom management\",\"volume\":\"70 5\",\"pages\":\"Pages 437-446\"},\"PeriodicalIF\":3.5000,\"publicationDate\":\"2025-07-26\",\"publicationTypes\":\"Journal Article\",\"fieldsOfStudy\":null,\"isOpenAccess\":false,\"openAccessPdf\":\"\",\"citationCount\":\"0\",\"resultStr\":null,\"platform\":\"Semanticscholar\",\"paperid\":null,\"PeriodicalName\":\"Journal of pain and symptom management\",\"FirstCategoryId\":\"3\",\"ListUrlMain\":\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885392425007390\",\"RegionNum\":2,\"RegionCategory\":\"医学\",\"ArticlePicture\":[],\"TitleCN\":null,\"AbstractTextCN\":null,\"PMCID\":null,\"EPubDate\":\"\",\"PubModel\":\"\",\"JCR\":\"Q2\",\"JCRName\":\"CLINICAL NEUROLOGY\",\"Score\":null,\"Total\":0}","platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of pain and symptom management","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885392425007390","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CLINICAL NEUROLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
The Association of Filial Piety and Financial Toxicity With Surrogate Decisional Conflict Among Adult Children of ICU Patients With Cancer
Context
Filial piety, a Confucian cultural value, is deeply rooted in the parent-child relationship in Chinese and many other Asian cultures. Adult children often experience decisional conflict when making decisions for their critically ill parents. However, the quantitative relationship between filial piety and surrogate decisional conflict has yet to be explored.
Objective
To examine the associations of both financial toxicity and filial piety with surrogate decisional conflict among adult children of intensive care unit (ICU) patients with cancer.
Methods
A cross-sectional survey was conducted in an ICU of a tertiary hospital in Guangzhou, China. A sample of 180 adult children serving as surrogates for patients with cancer completed the survey after the patients had been admitted to the ICU for at least 4 days. The measures included the family version of the Decision Conflict Scale, the Filial Piety Values Scale for Children of Patients with Advanced Cancer, and the Comprehensive Scores for Financial Toxicity. Multiple regression analysis was conducted to examine factors associated with surrogate decisional conflict.
Results
The adult children of ICU patients with cancer experienced a high level of surrogate decisional conflict. Surrogate decisional conflict was associated with more siblings (), lower levels of filial piety () and severe financial toxicity ().
Conclusion
Healthcare providers are recommended to provide culturally sensitive support for Chinese adult children making decisions for their parents with cancer in the ICU, such as offering strategies to mitigate the negative impact of financial toxicity and helping surrogates clarify their filial piety values to relieve decisional conflict.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management is an internationally respected, peer-reviewed journal and serves an interdisciplinary audience of professionals by providing a forum for the publication of the latest clinical research and best practices related to the relief of illness burden among patients afflicted with serious or life-threatening illness.