Trial reportCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2001
[Making a decision about hormone replacement therapy. A randomized controlled trial].
Trial report in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Factors explaining the heterogeneity of effects of patient decision aids on knowledge of outcome probabilities: a systematic review sub-analysis.Systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Effect of adding a values clarification exercise to a decision aid on heart disease prevention: a randomized trial.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision MakingTrial
- Development and acceptability of a deep brain stimulation surgery decision aid for Parkinson's disease.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2026Article
- A Review of Decision Aids for Patients Considering More Than One Type of Invasive Treatment.The Journal of surgical research · 2019Review
- Translating Evidence to Facilitate Shared Decision Making: Development and Usability of a Consult Decision Aid Prototype.The patient · 2016Article
- Assessing risk communication in breast cancer: are continuous measures of patient knowledge better than categorical?Patient education and counseling · 2009Article
- Can patient decision aids help people make good decisions about participating in clinical trials? A study protocol.Implementation science : IS · 2008Article
- Implementing practice guidelines: a workshop on guidelines dissemination and implementation with a focus on asthma and COPD.Canadian respiratory journal · 2006Article
- Psychometric testing of the decisional conflict scale: genetic testing hereditary breast and ovarian cancer.Nursing researchArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo compare the efficacy of a decision-making aid with an information document from the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) with regard to decisions about hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
designRandomized clinical trial.
settingQuebec city region.
participantsMenopausal Francophone women 45 to 69 years old.
interventionsSubjects were given a manual and an audiocassette describing a six-step approach to making a decision about HRT.
main outcome measuresAmount of anxiety over the decision (main outcome), general knowledge of the risks and benefits of HRT, personal expectations and values concerning these risks and benefits, and women's views on HRT.
resultsAnxiety levels were significantly reduced in both groups, but the difference between the effectiveness of the two interventions was not significant (P = .77). Percentages of women whose general knowledge increased and of women with realistic expectations were significantly higher in the experimental group (P < .003 and P < .0001, respectively). Congruence between personal values and decisions about HRT increased significantly more in the experimental group (P < or = .003).
conclusionThe six-step approach to decision making was more helpful than the SOGC's information document in increasing subjects' knowledge of the risks and benefits of HRT, in creating more realistic expectations of HRT, and in increasing the congruence between subjects' personal values and their decisions on HRT.
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