What is the effect of a decision aid on knowledge, values and preferences for lung cancer screening? An online pre-post study.

OBJECTIVE To examine if a decision aid improves knowledge of lung cancer screening benefits and harms and which benefits and harms are most valued. DESIGN Pre-post study. SETTING Online. PARTICIPANTS 219 current or former (quit within the previous 15 years) smokers ages 55-80 with at least 30 pack-years of smoking. INTERVENTION Lung cancer screening video decision aid. MAIN MEASURES Screening knowledge tested by 10 pre-post questions and value of benefits and harms (reducing chance of death from lung cancer, risk of being diagnosed, false positives, biopsies, complications of biopsies and out-of-pocket costs) assessed through rating (1-5 scale) and ranking (top three ranked). RESULTS Mean age was 64.7±6.1, 42.5% were male, 75.4% white, 48.4% married, 28.9% with less than a college degree and 67.6% with income

Keywords:

• Preventive healthcare
• primary care
• Demography
• False positive paradox
• Medicine
• Ranking
• mean age
• Lung cancer
• Lung cancer screening

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