A Video Decision Aid Improves Informed Decision Making in Patients With Advanced Cancer Considering Palliative Radiation Therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Advanced cancer patients have unrecognized gaps in their understanding about palliative radiation therapy (PRT).

Objectives

To build a video decision aid for hospitalized patients with advanced cancer referred for PRT and prospectively test its efficacy in reducing decisional uncertainty, improving knowledge, increasing treatment readiness and readiness for palliative care consultation, and its acceptability among patients.

Methods

Forty patients with advanced cancer hospitalized at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center watched a video decision aid about PRT and palliative care. Patients' conceptual and logistical knowledge of PRT, decisional uncertainty, treatment readiness, and readiness for palliative care consultation were assessed before and after watchi

SUBMITTER: Dharmarajan KV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8132595 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature