Effect of different communication strategies about stopping cancer screening on screening intention and cancer anxiety: a randomised online trial of older adults in Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess different strategies for communicating to older adults about stopping cancer screening.

Design

4 (recommendation statement about stopping screening)×(2; time) online survey-based randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Australia.

Participants

271 English-speaking participants, aged 65-90, screened for breast/prostate cancer at least once in past decade.

Interventions

Time 1: participants read a scenario in which their general practitioner (GP) informed them about the potential benefits and harms of cancer screening, followed by double-blinded randomisation to one of four recommendation statements to stop screening: control ('this screening test would harm you more than benefit you'), health status ('your other health issues should take p

SUBMITTER: Smith J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7295415 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature