Are patient education materials about cancer screening more effective when co-created with patients? A qualitative interview study and randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient education materials (pems) are frequently used to help patients make cancer screening decisions. However, because pems are typically developed by experts, they might inadequately address patient barriers to screening. We co-created, with patients, a prostate cancer (pca) screening pem, and we compared how the co-created pem and a pem developed by experts affected decisional conflict and screening intention in patients.

Methods

We identified and used patient barriers to pca screening to co-create a pca screening pem with patients, clinicians, and researchers. We then conducted a parallel-group randomized controlled trial with men 40 years of age and older in Ontario to compare decisional conflict and intention about pca screening after those men had viewed

SUBMITTER: Bashir NY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6476445 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature