A Digital Decision Support Tool to Enhance Decisional Capacity for Clinical Trial Consent: Design and Development.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Challenges in the clinical and research consent process indicate the need to develop tailored, supportive interventions for all individuals, especially those with limited decisional capacity. We developed a tool to enhance shared decision making and the decisional capacity for individuals with fragile X syndrome engaged in the informed consent process for a clinical trial.

Objective

We describe the design and development process of a tablet-based decision support tool.

Methods

Our development process for the decision support tool employed a user-centered, feature-driven design approach. We began with an environmental scan to catalog relevant mobile apps, and we conducted interviews with people with a diagnosis of fragile X syndrome and clinicians at fragile

SUBMITTER: Furberg RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6010840 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature