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Below you will find samples of our most recent acquisitions in George Bennett Grants, grouped by resource type.
Enhancing Comprehension of Graphically Presented Medical Data: Designs to Help People with Low Graph Literacy
September 20, 2012
In order to make informed medical decisions, patients need to understand information about risks, benefits and drawbacks of different treatments. However, research on health literacy and medical decision making has shown that patients in different cultures have severe problems grasping a host of numerical concepts that are prerequisites for understanding health-relevant statistical information. Graphical displays -- including line plots, bar charts or icon arrays -- often facilitate the communication of numerical information, and can help overcome some of these difficulties.… Continue reading
Effects of Decision Ambiguity on Shared Medical Decision Making
September 30, 2011
To evaluate the impact of ambiguity on shared medical decision making using scenarios on future medicine and unconventional medicine. To develop and test a decision aid tool to help patients and physicians understand ambiguity and to encourage a shared medical decision making process that is applicable to ambiguous decisions that involve future medicine and unconventional medicine. … Continue reading
Overdiagnosis in Screening Mammography: Examination of Women's Attitudes and Responses to Information about Overdiagnosis
May 15, 2011
The overall purpose of this research is to contribute to improving communication with the community about screening mammography. The research involves developing and evaluating educational materials and strategies to meet the important ethical objective of providing balanced information about screening outcomes in order to support screening decisions.… Continue reading
Understanding the Experience of Early Stage Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment among Jordanian Women
September 30, 2010
To understand the experience of being diagnosed with and undergoing surgical treatment for early stage breast cancer among Jordanian women. Study specific aims are to: 1) gain an understanding of women’s knowledge of breast cancer treatment and how their treatment awareness has been informed; 2) explore women’s awareness of their right to be informed and involved in their own medical care; 3) explore women’s preferences for involvement; and 4) identify the extent to which these women perceived that they had surgical treatment options.… Continue reading
The Effect of a Decision Aid on the Quality of Colon Cancer Screening
September 30, 2010
The primary goal of this study is to determine whether the decision aid increases patient knowledge about colon cancer screening. The secondary goal of the study is to assess the degree to which use of the decision aid affects participants’ values and actual choice of particular screening tests.… Continue reading
The Unintended Consequences of Biomedical Advances: Social Inequalities in Health Behaviors Among Pregnant Women
May 15, 2009
This study combines an emerging approach in medical sociology that focuses on the importance of new health information and disease preventability with the bedrock of literature that describes the influence of social relationships on medical decision-making. … Continue reading
Process Variables in the Communication Model of Shared Decision Making in the Context of Medical Rehabilitation
May 15, 2009
The preliminary analysis of data showed a reasonable fit of the original framework and supported the hypothesis that certain process variables (e.g., empathy) are important mediating factors between SDM and positive outcomes such as higher patient satisfaction.… Continue reading
Appealing to Males At-Risk for Testicular Cancer: Defining 'Control Identity' Typology and Modeling Perceptions of Testicular Self-Examination (TSE)
September 30, 2008
This study theoretically argued that an individual’s attitude toward cancer screening is a derivative of one’s “Control Identity;” specifically, how one views his control over health outcomes. A series of factor and cluster analyses in fact demonstrated that four distinct groupings of individuals as defined by the tenets of 'control identity' theory does in fact (at least) preliminarily exist. More testing is needed.… Continue reading
What is the Role of Decision Support Software in the Decision Making Process for Men with Early Stage Prostate Cancer? A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Personal Characteristics that Influence Use and the Decision Making Process
September 30, 2007
Specific CAPtDA components were highly utilized while other components were rarely used. The “Men’s Stories,” which included actual men’s stories about diagnoses, treatment decisions and challenges, was viewed by 77% of the men. Results showed that the percentage of men who viewed “Men’s Stories” spent almost half of their time (46%) here.… Continue reading
Development and Evaluation of an Intervention to Engage Inter-Professional Health Care Teams, Patients and Families in Shared Decision Making about the Level of Care in the Intensive Care Unit
September 30, 2007
The research aims to develop and evaluate an intervention to engage interprofessional health care teams, patients and families in shared decision making about the level of care in the Intensive Care Unit.… Continue reading
Decision Making About Colonoscopy Use among Survivors of Colorectal Cancer
May 15, 2007
This project addresses the risk perceptions, surveillance intentions and surveillance behaviors of CRC survivors. Researchers found that risk perception varies widely but that geographic region is a major predictor and that colonoscopy use may reflect better access to care. The Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance (CanCORS) study is a national multi-site cohort study of CRC patients. … Continue reading
Determinants of HPV Testing in an Undeserved Population (The Effect of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising on Clinical Decision Quality: A Two-Part Analysis of a Cervical Cancer Screening Test Campaign)
May 15, 2006
Study found HPV test use increased over study period and appropriate use doubled to 60%-75% of total use.… Continue reading
Changes in Professional Norms and Physicians' Practice with Patients (Physician Decision-Making Around Treatment Innovations: Influences of Patients, Colleagues, and Practice Context)
May 15, 2006
This project will reveal the strategies used by patients that enable successful input into their treatments and indicate the conditions under which physician decisions are based on influences from colleagues or scientific research. Consequent interventions can potentially proceed in a fashion unhampered by obstacles that otherwise would have prevented successful implementation. The project seeks to indicate what conditions cause physicians to acquiese to their patients' requests for particular treatments and evaluate to what extent clinical research and evidence-based medical resources are used.… Continue reading
Shared Decision Making for People with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness
January 30, 2005
The proposed research will assess the decision making needs of people with SMI and their clinicians, and create a model decision aid that meets the local needs of clients and clinicians. This study will contribute to the development of interventions for persons with SMI by: 1) identifying decision support needs gaps; 2) identifying moderating variables of needs gaps; and 3) building and assessing the feasibility of decision aids to fill decision support needs gaps in this population.… Continue reading
