Representativeness of personality and involvement preferences in a web-based survey on healthcare decision-making.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obtaining a sample that is representative of the group of interest is of utmost importance in questionnaire studies. In a survey using a state authorized web-portal for citizen communication with authorities, we wanted to investigate the view of adult men on patient involvement in health care decision-making regarding Prostate-Specific Antigen test for prostatic cancer. In this paper, we report on sample characteristics and representativeness of our sample in terms of personality and baseline involvement preferences.

Methods

We compared personality profiles (BFI-10) and baseline healthcare decision-making preferences (CPS) in our sample (n = 6756) to internationally available datasets. Pooled data from a) US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (n = 1512), b) G

SUBMITTER: Birkeland S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7488239 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature