Predictors of participation in risk-based prostate cancer screening.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Implementation of risk-based prostate cancer screening has been proposed as a means to reduce the harms of PSA screening. Little is known, however, about the factors influencing men's decision to attend a prostate cancer screening based on a risk assessment.

Method

We sent postal invitations with a login to a survey to 10.000 men, three months before invitation to a risk-based prostate cancer screening. Prostate cancer specific worry, prostate cancer-related knowledge, health behaviour, and health related quality of life were used as predictors of subsequent participation. Participation to risk-based prostate cancer screening was defined as providing a blood sample for the STHLM3 trial, a study evaluating a risk-based model that predicts the risk for aggressive pr

SUBMITTER: Koitsalu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6039032 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature