An experimental evaluation of patient decision aid design to communicate the effects of medications on the rate of progression of structural joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis

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• 作者：Richard W. Martin^a ; ^{martin@mi-arthritis.com} ; Matthew E. Brower^b ; Alexander Geralds^a ; Patience J. Gallagher^b ; Donald J. Tellinghuisen^b
• 关键词：Risk communication ; Decision making ; Informed choice ; Medication ; Leaflets
• 刊名：Patient Education and Counseling
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：217_07383991
• 类别：med
• 出版时间：March, 2012
• 卷：86
• 期：3
• 页码：329-334
• 文件大小：506 K

摘要

Objective

To explore how effectively information presentation formats used in a patient decision aid communicated the ability of a disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug to slow the rate of progression of rheumatoid arthritis related structural joint damage (SJD).

Methods

91 first year psychology students and 91 RA patients participated in a prospective randomized, single blind, factorial experimental design evaluating the effect of four information formats on: satisfaction with risk communication, verbatim and gist recall of a hypothetical anti-rheumatic drug's ability to slow the rate of progression of SJD.

Results

Both groups underestimated the hypothetical drug's ability to slow SJD. Formats that supported the narrative statement with a reinforcing graphic element resulted in recall closer to the true value. Comparison of the results from testing of RA patients and college students were remarkably similar across formats.

Conclusion

Rate of progression as communicated by narrative statement plus a graphic element (i.e. speedometer metaphor or pictograph) aided recall better than a narrative statement alone. Our results suggest that testing decision aid components with non-patients may provide data generalizable to patient populations.

Practice implications

Graphics must be used carefully in patient decision aids as they can enhance recall, but may also introduce unintended recall bias.