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ArticleHealth expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy2012

Responses to procedural information about colorectal cancer screening using faecal occult blood testing: the role of consideration of future consequences.

Christian von Wagner, Anna Good, Samuel G Smith, Jane Wardle

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Article in Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  13. How do people interpret information about colorectal cancer screening: observations from a think-aloud study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2015
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  14. Attitudes and beliefs of non-participants in a population-based screening programme for colorectal cancer.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2015
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  19. The implications of patients and carers as active agents in health care and the consequences for their own health, the health of their families and health system.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2012
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4 authors.

Christian von WagnerCancer Research UK, Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, London, UK. c.wagner@ucl.ac.uk
Anna Good
Samuel G Smith
Jane Wardle

Funding

Cancer Research UK 14134
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundColorectal cancer (CRC) screening participation is low despite its effectiveness in reducing CRC mortality. Identifying benefits and barriers requires consideration of specific characteristics of screening modalities. AIMS AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS: To monitor the impact of providing information about CRC screening via faecal occult blood testing (FOBt) on intentions to participate. To investigate moderation by individual differences in consideration of future consequences (CFC). DESIGN, SETTING AND

participantsA total of 211 healthy adults (aged 45-59) with no experience of CRC screening were presented with eight consecutive statements about FOBt-based screening in a web survey. Participants completed measures of i) intention (after each statement), ii) CFC and iii) the importance of screening practicalities (e.g. unpleasantness of completing the test) and benefits (e.g. early detection of cancer).

resultsAn 8 (information)×2 (CFC) mixed ancova showed that intentions varied across the eight statements. (P<0.001): increasing after information about FOBt being completed at home (P<0.001) before subsequently decreasing after information about the requirement to collect faecal samples (P<0.001) in a plastic tub (P<0.01) on three occasions (P<0.01) with the low CFC group generally being less inclined to complete the test (P<0.01). Two between-group anovas demonstrated that the low CFC group attributed greater importance to practicalities of screening than the high CFC group while the opposite was found for the importance of benefits (both P's<0.001).

conclusionDeconstructing FOBt-based screening pointed to specific benefits and barriers which can advance research into public preferences of screening and educational materials.

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Occult BloodPatient Education as TopicColorectal NeoplasmsConsumer Health InformationEarly Detection of CancerHumansMiddle AgedPatient Participation

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PMID21501350
PMCPMC5060610

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