Survey Question Format
Baseline data collected in the survey included respondent’s age, gender, and seniority. Each case scenario was then followed by a series of six questions, unchanged across the four scenarios. Study subjects were asked to answer all questions as they would in their own clinical practice. Answer choices were dichotomized or measured on a Likert scale. Questions investigated who had the ultimate decision-making authority between the patient and the parents, how parent-child conflict might be resolved, and utilization of ethics and psychiatry consultation services (Appendix 1). Following the four case scenarios, an optional, qualitative question asked study respondents to write a few sentences describing their scenario responses.