MAPPIN´SDM - Multifocal Approach to the Sharing in SDM

MAPPIN'SDM is an abbreviation for Multifocal approach to the sharing in shared decision making, which is an instrument for measuring the degree of patients’ involvement in decisions about their own health (Shared decision-making, SDM). The tool was developed by the psychologist, Jürgen Kasper together with the German research group "Health information and patient involvement". The work was carried out in the course of a number of commissioned research projects aimed at developing and evaluating measures to increase patient involvement (1-4). The Norwegian version of the instrument was validated through a collaboration between Kasper and Simone Kienlin. MAPPIN'SDM (5) consists of an observer manual and questionnaires that are now available in several languages, including English, French, Italian, Serbo- Croatian, Korean, Chinese, Dutch and Norwegian. The purpose of this short version is to give new “shared decision making (SDM)”-instructors an introduction to observing patient involvement in terms of the MAPPIN’SDM standard of quality. Instructors using the "Klar for samvalg" (engl.: “Ready for SDM” 6-10) method for training healthcare professionals’ SDM skills, will have to observe and code the degree of patient involvement and use this competence to evaluate training examples of communication. However, we (authors) do consider the current manual suitable to provide rater-training for researchers too. The short version of the guide for coding patients' involvement in decision-making has been written by Jürgen Kasper in collaboration with Simone Kienlin, special advisor and PhD fellow, Tore Neset, MD and PhD fellow Anja Fog Heen and Øystein Eiring, head of department and specialist in psychiatry. The work was commissioned by the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority.