Preferences for autonomy in end-of-life decision making in modern Korean society.

ANALYSIS of variance; CHI-squared test; CONFIDENCE intervals; STATISTICAL correlation; CULTURE; DECISION making; KOREANS; PATIENTS; LEGAL status of patients; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; SCALE analysis (Psychology); STATISTICS; SURVEYS; TERMINAL care; LOGISTIC regression analysis; DATA analysis; FAMILY relations; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics

The article discusses a study which aimed at identifying the extent to which Korean adults wanted to exercise autonomy in the process of decision making with respect to end-of-life (EOL) treatment and determine the association of economic issues and family functioning with preferences for involvement in decision making about EOL treatment in Korean people. Topics discussed include findings that most Korean people wanted autonomy in the decision-making process about treatment at end-of-life.