Development and pilot evaluation of a personalized decision support intervention for low risk prostate cancer patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Development and pilot evaluation of a personalized decision support intervention to help men with early-stage prostate cancer choose among active surveillance, surgery, and radiation.

Methods

We developed a decision aid featuring long-term survival and side effects data, based on focus group input and stakeholder endorsement. We trained premedical students to administer the intervention to newly diagnosed men with low-risk prostate cancer seen at the University of California, San Francisco. Before the intervention, and after the consultation with a urologist, we administered the Decision Quality Instrument for Prostate Cancer (DQI-PC). We hypothesized increases in two knowledge items from the DQI-PC: How many men diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer will eve

SUBMITTER: Belkora J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6943165 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature