Demographic, health, and attitudinal factors predictive of cancer screening decisions in older adults.

ABSTRACT: Many older adults receive routine cancer screening even when it is no longer recommended. We sought to identify demographic, health-related, and attitudinal factors that are most predictive of continued breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer screening decisions in older adults under various scenarios. A sample of adults age 65+ (n = 1272) were recruited from a nationally representative panel in November 2016, of which 881 (69.3%) completed our survey. Participants were presented vignettes in which we experimentally varied a hypothetical patient's life expectancy, age, quality of life, and physician screening recommendation. The dependent variable was the choice to continue cancer screening in the vignette. Classification and regression tree (CART) analysis was used to identify characteris

SUBMITTER: Schoenborn NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6350222 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature