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Trial reportAnnals of family medicine2017

Persuasive Interventions for Controversial Cancer Screening Recommendations: Testing a Novel Approach to Help Patients Make Evidence-Based Decisions.

Barry G Saver, Kathleen M Mazor, Roger Luckmann, Sarah L Cutrona, Marcela Hayes, Tatyana Gorodetsky, Nancy Esparza, Gonzalo Bacigalupe

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Trial report in Annals of family medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Recommendations on screening for breast cancer in women aged 40-74 years who are not at increased risk for breast cancer.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Barry G SaverUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts Barry.Saver@swedish.org.
Kathleen M MazorUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Roger LuckmannUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Sarah L CutronaUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Marcela HayesUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Tatyana GorodetskyCenter for Health Impact, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Nancy EsparzaCenter for Health Impact, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Gonzalo BacigalupeUniversity of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeWe wanted to evaluate novel decision aids designed to help patients trust and accept the controversial, evidence-based, US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations about prostate cancer screening (from 2012) and mammography screening for women aged 40 to 49 years (from 2009).

methodsWe created recorded vignettes of physician-patient discussions about prostate cancer screening and mammography, accompanied by illustrative slides, based on principles derived from preceding qualitative work and behavioral science literature. We conducted a randomized crossover study with repeated measures with 27 men aged 50 to 74 years and 35 women aged 40 to 49 years. All participants saw a video intervention and a more traditional, paper-based decision aid intervention in random order. At entry and after seeing each intervention, they were surveyed about screening intentions, perceptions of benefits and harm, and decisional conflict.

resultsChanges in screening intentions were analyzed without regard to order of intervention after an initial analyses showed no evidence of an order effect. At baseline, 69% of men and 86% of women reported wanting screening, with 31% and 6%, respectively, unsure. Mean change on a 3-point, yes, unsure, no scale was -0.93 (

conclusionsOur novel, persuasive video interventions significantly changed the screening intentions of substantial proportions of viewers. Our approach needs further testing but may provide a model for helping patients to consider and accept evidence-based, counterintuitive recommendations.

Indexed as

Decision MakingPatient ParticipationPersuasive CommunicationAdultAgedBreast NeoplasmsCross-Over StudiesDecision Support TechniquesEarly Detection of CancerFemaleHumansMaleMammographyMiddle AgedProstatic NeoplasmsUnited Statescancer screeningclinical decision makingearly detection of cancermammographypersuasive interventionsprostate cancer

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PMID28376460
PMCPMC5217843

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