Do risk attitudes differ across domains and respondent types?
” (AHRQ grant HS14010). Medical Decision Making, 27(3), pp. 281-287. Patient attitudes toward risk can affect their treatment choices. Current practice assumes risk neutrality; however, little is known about whether patients exhibit different attitudes toward risk than nonpatients or whether people have different risk preferences for different goods such as money or health. Prospect theory suggests that the patient could be predicted to make riskier or less risky choices than a community member, because the patient faces possible outcomes from a different point of reference. The authors evaluated the risk attitudes of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and a community sample over a health gamble and two money gambles. They administered a survey to 56 adult patients with relapsing-remitting MS and 57 adult members of the general public. The health gamble asked patients and community members to choose between two drugs of differing effectiveness in reducing or ending a projected 30-re
