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 model 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 the literature and from the research program of the current author are presented. In part 1, support for the antecedent predictors, both primary and secondary factors, was presented. In part 2, the mediator of decision making, the moderator of risk motivation, and the expected outcomes related to risk behaviors, clinical status, and health-related quality of life are addressed. Besides a description supporting the second part of the clinical profile and its empirical underpinnings in part 2, methodologic challenges in future research and implications for clinical trials and clinical use specific to cancer-surviving adolescents also are discussed.