Why values elicitation techniques enable people to make informed decisions about cancer trial participation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Decision aids help patients make informed treatment decisions. Values clarification (VC) techniques are part of decision aids that help patients assimilate the information with their personal values. There is little evidence that these techniques contribute to enhanced decision making over and above the provision of good quality information.

Objectives

To assess whether VC techniques are active ingredients in enhancing informed decision making and explain how and why they work.

Methods

Participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: (i) information only, (ii) information plus implicit task, (iii) information plus explicit task. Thirty healthy women from a UK University participated by making a hypothetical choice between taking part in a clinica

SUBMITTER: Abhyankar P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5057171 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature