A clinical profile to predict decision making, risk behaviors, clinical status, and health-related quality of life for cancer-surviving adolescents -Part 2

This is the second part of a two-part article describing a multifactorial m odel of clinical factors predicting decision-making quality, risk behaviors , clinical status, and health-related quality of life for cancer-surviving adolescents. To support the conceptualization of the model, findings from t he literature and From the research program of the current author are prese nted. In part 1, support for the antecedent predictors, both primary and se condary factors, was presented. In part 2, the mediator of decision making, the moderator of risk motivation, and the expected outcomes related to ris k behaviors, clinical status, and health-related quality of life are addres sed. Besides a description supporting the second part of the clinical profi le and its empirical underpinnings in part 2, methodologic challenges in fu ture research and implications for clinical trials and clinical use specifi c to cancer-surviving adolescents also are discussed.