Exploring treatment preferences facilitated recruitment to randomized controlled trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore how patients' treatment preferences were expressed and justified during recruitment to a randomized controlled trial (RCT) and how they influenced participation and treatment decisions.

Study design and setting

Qualitative analysis of audio recordings of recruitment appointments with 93 participants aged 51-70 years in a UK multicenter RCT of localized prostate cancer treatments.

Results

Treatment preferences at recruitment were more complex and dynamic than previously assumed. Most participants expressed views about treatments early in appointments, ranging on a continuum from hesitant to well-formed opinions. As recruiters elicited men's views and provided detailed evidence-based treatment and study information, some opted for their preference,

SUBMITTER: Mills N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3167372 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature