Effects of communicating individual risks in screening programmes: Cochrane systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the effects of different types of individualised risk communication for patients who are deciding whether to participate in screening.

Design

Systematic review.

Data sources

Specialist register of the Cochrane consumers and communication review group, scientific databases, and a manual follow up of references.

Selection of studies

Studies were randomised controlled trials addressing decisions by patients whether or not to undergo screening and incorporating an intervention with an element of "individualised" risk communication-based on the individual's own risk factors for a condition (such as age or family history).

Outcome measures

The principal outcome was uptake of screening tests; further cognitive and affective measures were als

SUBMITTER: Edwards A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC200799 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature