Lupus & antiphospholipid syndrome
Association of physicians’ Big Five personality traits with shared decision-making in patients with SLE
Authors' conclusion
A physician's perfectionist tendencies may be a barrier to the SDM process with patients.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with SLE and their physicians, TRUM2-SLE study43 physicians
- Participants
- 493 patients
- Exposure
- Physicians' Big Five personality traits vs patient-rated shared decision-making (SDM)
- Outcome
- Association between physicians' TIPI-J scores (1-7 points each) and patient-reported SDM-Q-9 scores (0-100 points)
- Follow-up
- Baseline
Methodological detailsbaseline data of the TRUM2-SLE study, linear mixed-effects models with cluster-robust variance estimation, cluster analysis
- Baseline data of the TRUM2-SLE study
- Linear mixed-effects models with cluster-robust variance estimation
- Cluster analysis
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Association of TIPI-J traits with SDM-Q-9 score
Conscientiousness, β
−1.67
95% CI −3.02 to −0.33
Neuroticism, β
−2.06
95% CI −4.08 to −0.04
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Median scores
- SDM Questionnaire (SDM-Q-9) (patients), median
- 75.6
- TIPI-J extraversion (physicians), median
- 4.0
- TIPI-J agreeableness, median
- 5.0
- TIPI-J conscientiousness, median
- 3.0
- TIPI-J neuroticism, median
- 3.5
- TIPI-J openness, median
- 4.0
SDM-Q-9 score by physician personality cluster
- Cluster 2 ('lower perfectionism') had significantly higher SDM-Q-9 scores than Clusters 1 and 3
Original publication
Association of physicians’ Big Five personality traits with shared decision-making in patients with SLE. Rheumatology (Oxford). Published 26 May 2025. doi:10.
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