Aid-assisted decision making and colorectal cancer screening: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Shared decision making (SDM) is a widely recommended yet unproven strategy for increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening uptake. Previous trials of decision aids to increase SDM and CRC screening uptake have yielded mixed results.

Purpose

To assess the impact of decision aid-assisted SDM on CRC screening uptake.

Design

RCT.

Setting/participants

The study was conducted at an urban, academic safety-net hospital and community health center between 2005 and 2010. Participants were asymptomatic, average-risk patients aged 50-75 years due for CRC screening.

Intervention

Study participants (n=825) were randomized to one of two intervention arms (decision aid plus personalized risk assessment or decision aid alone) or control arm. The interventions

SUBMITTER: Schroy PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3966107 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature