Trial reportBMC medical informatics and decision making2014
Values clarification in a decision aid about fertility preservation: does it add to information provision?
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- Clarifying Values: An Updated and Expanded Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2021Pooled it
- Eggsurance? A randomized controlled trial of a decision aid for elective egg freezing.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2024Trial
- Values clarification and parental decision making about newborn genomic sequencing.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2020Trial
- Changes in life decisions and in emotions following genetic testing for cancer risk.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Patients' and Providers' Needs and Preferences When Considering Fertility Preservation Before Cancer Treatment: Decision-Making Needs Assessment.JMIR formative research · 2021Article
- Development of a decision support intervention for family members of adults who lack capacity to consent to trials.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2021Article
- Factors Influencing Pregnant Women's Use of Patient Decision Aids and Decision Making on Prenatal Screening: A Qualitative Study.Journal of family & reproductive health · 2020Article
- Comparison of explicit values clarification method (VCM), implicit VCM and no VCM decision aids for men considering prostate cancer screening: protocol of a randomized trial.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2020Article
- A global, incremental development method for a web-based prostate cancer treatment decision aid and usability testing in a Dutch clinical setting.Health informatics journal · 2019Article
- Improving women's knowledge about prenatal screening in the era of non-invasive prenatal testing for Down syndrome - development and acceptability of a low literacy decision aid.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2018Article
- Are publicly available internet resources enabling women to make informed fertility preservation decisions before starting cancer treatment: an environmental scan?BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2018Article
- Prenatal (non)treatment decisions in extreme prematurity: evaluation of Decisional Conflict and Regret among parents.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2017Article
- Use of a patient decision aid for prenatal screening for Down syndrome: what do pregnant women say?BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundWe aimed to evaluate the effect of a decision aid (DA) with information only compared to a DA with values clarification exercise (VCE), and to study the role of personality and information seeking style in DA-use, decisional conflict (DC) and knowledge.
methodsTwo scenario-based experiments were conducted with two different groups of healthy female participants. Dependent measures were: DC, knowledge, and DA-use (time spent, pages viewed, VCE used). Respondents were randomized between a DA with information only (VCE-) and a DA with information plus a VCE(VCE+) (experiment 1), or between information only (VCE-), information plus VCE without referral to VCE(VCE+), and information plus a VCE with specific referral to the VCE, requesting participants to use the VCE(VCE++) (experiment 2). In experiment 2 we additionally measured personality (neuroticism/conscientiousness) and information seeking style (monitoring/blunting).
resultsExperiment 1. There were no differences in DC, knowledge or DA-use between VCE- (n=70) and VCE+ (n=70). Both DAs lead to a mean gain in knowledge from 39% at baseline to 73% after viewing the DA. Within VCE+, VCE-users (n=32, 46%) reported less DC compared to non-users. Since there was no difference in DC between VCE- and VCE+, this is likely an effect of VCE-use in a self-selected group, and not of the VCE per se. Experiment 2. There were no differences in DC or knowledge between VCE- (n=65), VCE+ (n=66), VCE++ (n=66). In all groups, knowledge increased on average from 42% at baseline to 72% after viewing the DA. Blunters viewed fewer DA-pages (R=0.38, p<.001). More neurotic women were less certain (R=0.18, p<.01) and felt less supported in decision making (R=0.15, p<.05); conscientious women felt more certain (R=-0.15, p<.05) and had more knowledge after viewing the DA (R=0.15, p<.05).
conclusionsBoth DAs lead to increased knowledge in healthy populations making hypothetical decisions, and use of the VCE did not improve knowledge or DC. Personality characteristics were associated to some extent with DA-use, information seeking styles with aspects of DC. More research is needed to make clear recommendations regarding the need for tailoring of information provision to personality characteristics, and to assess the effect of VCE use in actual patients.
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