Psychosocial consequences of false positives in the Danish Lung Cancer CT Screening Trial: a nested matched cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Lung cancer CT screening can reduce lung cancer mortality, but high false-positive rates may cause adverse psychosocial consequences. The aim was to analyse the psychosocial consequences of false-positive lung cancer CT screening using the lung cancer screening-specific questionnaire, Consequences of Screening in Lung Cancer (COS-LC).

Design and setting

This study was a matched cohort study, nested in the randomised Danish Lung Cancer Screening Trial (DLCST).

Participants

Our study included all 130 participants in the DLCST with positive CT results in screening rounds 2-5, who had completed the COS-LC questionnaire. Participants were split into a true-positive and a false-positive group and were then matched 1:2 with a control group (n=248) on sex, age (±3

SUBMITTER: Rasmussen JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7279658 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature