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ABSTRACT: Background
Decision aids (DAs) can improve knowledge for prostate cancer treatment. However, the relative effects of DAs delivered within the clinical encounter and in more diverse patient populations are unknown. A multicenter cluster randomized controlled trial with a 2×2 factorial design was performed to test the effectiveness of within-visit and previsit DAs for localized prostate cancer, and minority men were oversampled.Methods
The interventions were delivered in urology practices affiliated with the NCI Community Oncology Research Program Alliance Research Base. The primary outcome was prostate cancer knowledge (percent correct on a 12-item measure) assessed immediately after a urology consultation.Results
Four sites administered the previsit DA (39 patients), 4 sites administered the within-visit DA (44 patients), 3 sites administered both previsit and within-visit DAs (25 patients), and 4 sites provided usual care (50 patients). The median percent correct in prostate cancer knowledge, based on the postvisit knowledge assessment after the intervention delivery, was as follows: 75% for the pre+within-visit DA study arm, 67% for the previsit DA only arm, 58% for the within-visit DA only arm, and 58% for the usual-care arm. Neither the previsit DA nor the within-visit DA had a significant impact on patient knowledge of prostate cancer treatments at the prespecified 2.5% significance level (P = .132 and P = .977, respectively).Conclusions
DAs for localized prostate cancer treatment provided at 2 different points in the care continuum in a trial that oversampled minority men did not confer measurable gains in prostate cancer knowledge.
SUBMITTER: Tilburt JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8882149 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tilburt Jon C JC Zahrieh David D Pacyna Joel E JE Petereit Daniel G DG Kaur Judith S JS Rapkin Bruce D BD Grubb Robert L RL Chang George J GJ Morris Michael J MJ Kovac Evan Z EZ Babaian Kara N KN Sloan Jeff A JA Basch Ethan M EM Peil Elizabeth S ES Dueck Amylou C AC Novotny Paul J PJ Paskett Electra D ED Buckner Jan C JC Joyce Daniel D DD Montori Victor M VM Frosch Dominick L DL Volk Robert J RJ Kim Simon P SP
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<h4>Background</h4>Decision aids (DAs) can improve knowledge for prostate cancer treatment. However, the relative effects of DAs delivered within the clinical encounter and in more diverse patient populations are unknown. A multicenter cluster randomized controlled trial with a 2×2 factorial design was performed to test the effectiveness of within-visit and previsit DAs for localized prostate cancer, and minority men were oversampled.<h4>Methods</h4>The interventions were delivered in urology pr ...[more]