The Modest Effects of Fact Boxes on Cancer Screening.

ABSTRACT: As health care becomes increasingly personalized to the needs and values of individual patients, informational interventions that aim to inform and debias consumer decision-making are likely to become important tools. In a randomized controlled experiment, we explore the effects of providing participants with published fact boxes on the benefits and harms of common cancer screening procedures. Female participants were surveyed about breast cancer screening by mammography, while male participants were surveyed about prostate cancer screening by prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing. For these screening procedures, we expect consumers to have overly optimistic prior beliefs about the benefits and harms. We find that participants update their beliefs about the net benefits of screening mode

SUBMITTER: Eber MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8354090 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature