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PreView: Development and Pilot Testing of an Interactive Video Doctor Plus Provider Alert to Increase Cancer Screening

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Interventions to increase recommended cancer screening tests and discussions are needed. METHODS: aiting Rooms Program), a multimedia cancer prevention intervention for primary care clinics based on the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change We pilot tested PRE-VIEW An Interactive Video Doctor plus Provider Alert for feasibility and acceptability in primary care clinic settings in the San Francisco Bay Area, California in 2009-2010. RESULTS: Eighty participants (33 men and 47 women; more than half non-white) at 5 primary care clinics were included. After PRE-VIEW, 87% of women were definitely interested in mammography when due and 77% were definitely interested in a Pap test. 73% of participants were definitely interested in colorectal cancer screening when due, and 79% of men were definitely interested in a discussion about the PSA test. The majority indicated that they received an appropriate amount of information from PRE-VIEW and that the information presented helped them decide whether or not to be screened. CONCLUSIONS: PRE-VIEW was well received and accepted and potentially provides an innovative and practical way to support physicians' efforts to increase cancer screening.

Source: ISRN Preventive Medicine

DOI: 10.5402/2013/935487

Authors: Millie Arora, Barbara Gerbert, Michael B. Potter, Ginny Gildengorin, Judith M. E. Walsh

Institution: University of California, San Francisco

Language: English

Topic: Global Cancer Incidence and Screening

Subfield: Oncology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: University of California, San Francisco, National Cancer Institute