Shawn P E Nishi1, Lisa M Lowenstein2, Tito R Mendoza3, Maria A Lopez Olivo2, Laura C Crocker2, Karen Sepucha4, Jiangong Niu2, Robert J Volk2. 1. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX. Electronic address: spnishi@utmb.edu. 2. Department of Health Services Research, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX. 3. Department of Symptom Research, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX. 4. Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Lung cancer screening (LCS) reduces lung cancer mortality, but it also carries a range of risks. Shared decision-making (SDM) is a process of engaging patients in their health care decisions and is a vital component of LCS. RESEARCH QUESTION: What is the quality of SDM among patients recently assessed for LCS? STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Cross-sectional study of screened patients recruited from two academic tertiary care centers in the South Central Region of the United States. Self-reported surveys assessed patient demographics, values related to outcomes of LCS, knowledge, SDM components including receipt of educational materials, and decisional conflict. RESULTS: Recently screened patients (n = 266) possessed varied LCS knowledge, answering an average of 41.4% of questions correctly. Patients valued finding cancer early over concerns about harms. Patients indicated that LCS benefits were presented to them by a health care provider far more often than harms (68.3% vs 20.8%, respectively), and 30.7% reported they received educational materials about LCS during the screening process. One-third of patients had some decisional conflict (33.6%) related to their screening decisions, whereas most patients (86.6%) noted that they were involved in the screening decision as much as they wanted. In multivariate models, non-White race and having less education were related to lower knowledge scores. Non-White patients and former smokers were more likely to be conflicted about the screening decision. Most patients (n = 227 [85.3%]) indicated that a health care provider had discussed smoking cessation or abstinence with them. INTERPRETATION: Among recently screened patients, the quality of decision-making about LCS is highly variable. The low use of educational materials including decision aids and imbalance of conveying benefit vs risk information to patients is concerning. A structured approach using decision aids may assist with providing a balanced presentation of information and may improve the quality of SDM.
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