What is the effect of a decision aid on knowledge, values and preferences for lung cancer screening? An online pre-post study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine if a decision aid improves knowledge of lung cancer screening benefits and harms and which benefits and harms are most valued.

Design

Pre-post study.

Setting

Online.

Participants

219 current or former (quit within the previous 15 years) smokers ages 55-80 with at least 30 pack-years of smoking.

Intervention

Lung cancer screening video decision aid.

Main measures

Screening knowledge tested by 10 pre-post questions and value of benefits and harms (reducing chance of death from lung cancer, risk of being diagnosed, false positives, biopsies, complications of biopsies and out-of-pocket costs) assessed through rating (1-5 scale) and ranking (top three ranked).

Results

Mean age was 64.7±6.1, 42.5% were male, 75.4% white, 48.4

SUBMITTER: Clark SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8273450 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature