A Procedure for Eliciting Women's Preferences for Breast Cancer Screening Frequency.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We evaluate the construct validity of a proposed procedure for eliciting lay preferences among health care policy options, suited for structured surveys. It is illustrated with breast cancer screening, a domain in which people may have heterogeneous preferences.

Methods

Our procedure applies behavioral decision research principles to eliciting preferences among policy options expressed in quantitative terms. Three-hundred women older than 18 y without a history of breast cancer were recruited through Amazon MTurk. Participants evaluated 4 screening options for each of 4 groups of women, with varying risk of breast cancer. Each option was characterized by estimates of 3 primary outcomes: breast cancer deaths, false alarms, and overdiagnosis resulting in unnecessary

SUBMITTER: Grayek E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9277327 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature