Comparing 3 techniques for eliciting patient values for decision making about prostate-specific antigen screening: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

To make good decisions about prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening, men must consider how they value the different potential outcomes.

Objective

To determine the effects of different methods of helping men consider such values.

Design and setting

Randomized trial from October 12 to 27, 2011, in the general community.

Participants

A total of 911 men aged 50 to 70 years from the United States and Australia who had average risk. Participants were drawn from online panels from a survey research firm in each country and were randomized by the survey firm to 1 of 3 values clarification methods: a balance sheet (n = 302), a rating and ranking task (n = 307), or a discrete choice experiment (n = 302).

Intervention

Participants underwent a values c

SUBMITTER: Pignone MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3974265 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature