Evaluating interventions to promote routine preventive screenings: a comparison of analytical outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Often in public health, we are interested in promoting routine preventive screenings (e.g., blood glucose monitoring, hypertension screening, or mammography). Evaluating novel interventions to encourage frequent screenings using randomized controlled trials can help inform evidence-based health promotion programs. When the desired behavior change is a recurrent event, specifying the most meaningful study outcomes may prove challenging.

Methods

To understand the efficiency of multiple approaches for evaluating an intervention seeking to increase regular health screenings we (a) simulated several replications of a trial with a positive intervention effect under various censoring scenarios, (b) formulated three different analytical outcome definitions (screening a ce

SUBMITTER: Sharma A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4380528 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature