Trial reportPatient education and counseling2008
Effects of using online narrative and didactic information on healthcare participation for breast cancer patients.
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- Risks and Benefits of Web-Based Patient Narratives: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Pooled it
- The Use of Cancer-Specific Patient-Centered Technologies Among Underserved Populations in the United States: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Pooled it
- Inclusion of underserved racial and ethnic groups in cancer intervention research using new media: a systematic literature review.Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs · 2013Pooled it
- Do personal stories make patient decision aids more effective? A critical review of theory and evidence.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2013Pooled it
- Using Narratives to Correct Forecasting Errors in Pediatric Tracheostomy Decision Making.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2021Trial
- Suffering in Advanced Cancer: A Randomized Control Trial of a Narrative Intervention.Journal of palliative medicine · 2018Trial
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- Engagement with a social networking intervention for cancer-related distress.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2015Trial
- The effects of combining Web-based eHealth with telephone nurse case management for pediatric asthma control: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2012Trial
- How breast cancer patients want to search for and retrieve information from stories of other patients on the internet: an online randomized controlled experiment.Journal of medical Internet research · 2010Trial
- Culturally appropriate patient-provider communication methods for Black women with breast cancer: a scoping review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Article
- The Implementation of Recommender Systems for Mental Health Recovery Narratives: Evaluation of Use and Performance.JMIR mental health · 2024Article
- Take on transplant: human-centered design of a patient education tool to facilitate informed discussions about lung transplant among people with cystic fibrosis.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Article
- Women's perceptions of PERSPECTIVE: a breast cancer risk stratification e-platform.Hereditary cancer in clinical practice · 2022Article
- Exploring the Role of Social Support in Promoting Patient Participation in Health Care among Women with Breast Cancer.Health communication · 2021Article
- Testing the Effects of Modality and Narration Style on Patients' Information Use in a Lung Cancer Treatment Decision Aid.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2020Article
- Stories to Communicate Individual Risk for Opioid Prescriptions for Back and Kidney Stone Pain: Protocol for the Life STORRIED Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
- Reasons Behind Preferences for Community-Based Continence Promotion.Female pelvic medicine & reconstructive surgery · 2020Article
- An Evaluation of the Video Narrative Technique on the Self-Efficacy of Medication Understanding and Use Among Post-Stroke Patients: A Randomized-Controlled Trial.Patient preference and adherence · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo determine the effects of online narrative and didactic information on breast cancer patients' healthcare participation and the interaction effects of race.
methodsSAMPLE: 353 breast cancer patients (111 African Americans) using an eHealth program with narratives (audiovisual and text) and didactic information (text only). MEASURES: healthcare participation scale (0, 4 months), online information use. ANALYSES: hierarchical regression.
resultsNarrative (beta=0.123, p<0.01) and didactic (beta=0.104, p<0.05) information use had independent and positive effects on healthcare participation. Effects of both were significantly greater for African Americans.
conclusionsFindings are consistent with and advance prior research on online learning processes and outcomes for breast cancer patients: (1) benefits accrue with using a variety of online learning tools; (2) African Americans use and benefit more from online narrative and didactic information than do Caucasians. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: eHealth programs should provide both didactic and narrative information-especially for African Americans and might consider making greater use of interactive and audiovisual formats. As patients increasingly use of the web for cancer information, clinicians should provide lists of web high quality resources that provide both narrative and didactic information.
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